As a spacious, modern, well-maintained, energy-efficient, four-bed semi located within six kilometers of Cork city centre, No 35, Crawford Woods, Church Hill in Glanmire will tick a lot of boxes for a trade-up buyer. 

The Office of Public Works’ mapping of potential flooding in Cork county is seriously inaccurate in a number of locations, it has been claimed, forecasting “Noah’s Ark” extremes and paving the way for insurance companies to hike up cover or refuse it altogether.

Estate agent Jackie Cohalan will ‘split’ the difference with home hunters in 2017, offering split-level living options in locations like Glanmire and at Passage West, where she’s selling a dozen serviced sites, including five for split-level, new-builds.

This is guided at €675,000, and is reached off a short, discrete shared access with low stone avenue walls off Church Hill.

Built just over 20 years ago, the part two-storey, part-dormer 2,200 sq ft family home called Snugboro could not be more centrally set in Cork’s Glanmire community.

A 20-year-old man was arrested yesterday after leading gardaí on a morning car chase around the north-side of Cork City, crashing into a number of cars in the process.

Tommy Barker looks at a recently refurbished three-storey townhouse, close to amenities with all the virtues of coastal living.

A larger, 2,700 sq ft five-bed detached home at Crawford Woods had a swift sale last month with Sherry FitzGerald, making just under its €585,000 March asking price, to close in July at €570,000.

More than 240 families renting council houses in North Cork will be feeling a lot cosier this winter following the announcement that insulation and draft-proofing works are to start on their homes.

Tommy Barker looks at this spacious ‘no expense spared’ quality build with lots of light and shade.

With plenty of space on three levels, and plenty of bedrooms, No 5, Crawford Manor, is a well-laid-out family home almost with rooms to spare, says Tommy Barker.

A trio of properties being offered for liquidators in Cork include two land parcels, one in Cork harbour’s Passage West for house building the other in Glanmire, for warehousing, along with a Wilton office/retail building totalling 11,000 sq ft.

Size: 184sq m (2,000 sq ft)

Upmarket four-bed is destined for viewings as the Cork market picks up Tommy Barker reports.

A man has been jailed for life for murdering a woman he had been "an item" with for three months.

Sq m: 140 (1,500 sq ft)

If you want to live in a boring box of a home, it’s best to give Woodbrook House a skip; it’s a one-off, bursting with individuality, comfortably provisioned with creature comforts and five en suite bedrooms, architect-designed and all ageing gracefully and on sloping grounds of dense planting, with pergola, pond and privacy.

Church Hill, Passage West property with conservatory will need a good overhaul, but the price is under €160k for prospective buyer, Rose Martin reports

This 4,500 sq ft, five-bedroom house in Cork’s Carrigrohane has a movie screen in red velvet-clad basement room, says Tommy Barker

A €14m wind farm began turning its turbines yesterday along the Cork-Kerry border, generating clean energy for the region.

CARRIGALINE, CORK €275,000

We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country

WORK on a €72 million 51-megawatt wind farm in Co Tyrone is to commence immediately after Energia raised €65m to finance the project which is part of its all-island renewable energy plans.

NUMBER 3 Sirius Heights has the kind of grown-up appeal that will make it a dead cert for couples or older families.

COLIN MERRITT (Carraig na bhFear AC) could go one better than last year if plans for Monday’s Bord Gáis Energy Cork City Marathon materialise.

PUNISHING sections of one of the country’s most popular marathons has been scrapped as part of a course revamp announced yesterday.

THE Health and Safety Authority (HSA) is close to completing its probe into a fatal explosion at a Cork chemical plant almost two years ago.

ESTATE agents’ brochures invariably highlight the positives — but is a healthy 90-minute walk really going to sell a house? Or, is it telling us something about the way in which people may commute from their energy-saving homes in the future?

SIZEABLE price reductions are being flagged for the ’09 spring selling season on two very varied house options east of Cork city.

Overnight frost has left road conditions treacherous today with motorists warned to be aware of icy stretches on routes across the country.

STAN McCarthy, president and chief executive of Kerry Ingredients Americas, has been appointed chief executive-designate of the Kerry Group.

ANTI-MOBILE phone mast protesters who sparked controversy by targeting a Church of Ireland service defended their tactics yesterday.

MOBILE phone mast protestors were criticised yesterday for targeting worshippers at a Church of Ireland Sunday service.

Rose Martin reports on an aptly-named makeover of a former stables.

GARDAÍ are keeping an open mind on whether a Brazilian, who was viciously beaten by three men, was the victim of a racially motivated attack.

PLANNING is through for 27 3,300 sq ft detached homes in Church Hill, one of Cork’s best locations in the Glanmire suburb.

TERRACOTTA brick and cut limestone are part of the fabric and charm of this property in New Inn, Glanmire.

Tommy Barker soaks up the old world charm of a lodge full of character.

A MOVE Down Under has brought The Gables, in Cork’s Glanmire, to the market, where a buyer might make profitable use of the summer lull.

UP CHURCH Hill in Passage West, turn to the right, then climb another bit and you come to Ard Cluain.

ROLL up, roll up! Sirius Heights has one last, three-bed penthouse left for €380,000 and it comes with designer styling and all furniture and fittings.