SLOW-growing, but majestic oaks take time to mature and make their impact. And, along Cork’s Boreenmanna Road, a development called The Oaks has so far gone under most locals’ radars, despite now being rooted to the spot for the past 13 years.

THE first thing a buyer might do with The Cottage, on Cork’s Boreenmanna Road, is to change the name — and then knock the cottage itself.