Price: €440,000

It’s fingers crossed today and tomorrow for organisers of one of the country’s oldest agriculture shows.

A quality, one-off family home built with the best of materials. Tommy Barker reports

THERE’S a touch of the landed gentry about this part of Lissarda, Co Cork — it’s an area with fine houses set on fine acres of land.

IT was a neighbour who came to the fore at last week’s successful auction of a 135-acre residential dairy farm 20 miles west of Cork city.

Tommy Barker finds a true one-off in Enniskeane on one acre.

IT’S unusual to get two country properties in close proximity for sale, but that’s what’s happened at Currahaly, Farran. Norma Healy of Sherry FitzGerald is charged with selling two detached houses at €420,000 apiece and they each come with their own attractions.

ONE hour will be taken off the journey between Dublin and Cork by 2010, according to the chairman of the National Roads Authority (NRA).

LAST sold in the 1990s, Brideweir is a former Georgian rectory arriving on the market upgraded even further, with a €1.3 million-plus price guide.

GARDAÍ are appealing for witnesses to a horrific crash which claimed the life of a 13-year-old boy from Co Cork.

FOUR people died in road accidents this weekend bringing the total killed on our roads this year to 367. Two people died on Co Cork roads. An 86-year-old woman was knocked down by a truck in Co Clare and a young man was killed when he crashed his car in Co Donegal.