Trish Dromey checks out 2 Coolmore Lodge, near Carrigaline, a limestone-built cottage designed by architect Thomas Cundy in 1815.

There are quality woods inside, and outside, at Blackberry Cottage, in the woodland scheme of one-off homes called Brookwood. 

The charms of No 4 Coolmore Lodge have not been lost on flocks of house-hunters intent on a new pecking order, writes Tommy Barker.

There are encouraging signs of an appetite for Irish country house, writes Michael H Daniels

Tommy Barker says activity in country houses is low key.