The last re-sale of a Bellair Estate home, right on the main Douglas Road in Cork, was to a Munster rugby club player. 

A setting mid-way along Rosebank, between the two Douglas Roads, and within a walk of the city centre, and Douglas village, should draw keen family trading interest to Redthorn.

A 58-year-old man grabbed an English woman visitor by the buttocks as she walked along a road in Cork City, but she slapped him across the face and he ran away.

“A grand, solid block of a house” — so says Hugh McPhillips of Marshs auctioneers, seeing straight to the good points of the suburban four-bedroomed 11 Bellair Estate. 

A woman charged with falsely imprisoning and robbing a 69-year-old man at his home in Cork confessed to the crime yesterday.

This four-bed semi-d called ‘La Puente’, inside and at the back end of the Endsleigh estate off Cork’s main Douglas Road, is primed for updating, once in new ownership.

Tommy Barker says the big money is on Mosman’s architectural beauty in Douglas.

It’s been a while since a house in Cork’s Knockrea or Woolhara Parks have come to market - certainly not since the upper end of the market began its climb back out of the doldrums of the last seven years.

Knockrea Lodge is an unusual offer, in a great suburban setting, bursting with greenery and spring growth, dotted with old beech trees and seating areas.

And the last shall be first? The highest numbered house in Baltimore Lawn, No 20, is the first one you meet on the way into this niche, cul de sac park off Cork city’s Douglas Road.

Pretty much all of the original features of its era are intact at this hide-away Douglas Road home, 5 Rocklawn. And, while that’s to the good, the downside is the century-old mid-terraced home, among six in-a-row, now needs a fairly full renovation.

Sq m 184 (2,000sq ft)

Size: 110 sqm (1,190 sq ft)

Douglas Road, Cork

Size: Sq m 232 (2,500 sq ft)

We scan a selection of starter homes from around the country.

This four-bed semi in Loretto Park defies expectations, writes Tommy Barker

WHAT a package Belmont is. This period/Edwardian three-storey four-bed home on a third of an acre in one of the best stretches of the Douglas Road in Cork is a desirable, new-to-market arrival.

9 Elm Close is prefect for a single buyer or a trader-down. Tommy Barker reports

YOUGHAL, CORK €395,000