CLEAR ISLAND WALK, WEST CORK

BLASKET ISLAND VISITOR CENTRE WALK

GLENBARROW LOOP ON THE SLIEVE BLOOM WAY, CO LAOIS

Rose Martin is taken with this former hunting lodge on four acres at Ballyhooly, Co Cork

Rose Martin is taken with this former hunting lodge on four acres at Ballyhooly, Co Cork

When Christy McCormack hung up his uniform for the last time it marked the end of an era for rural policing in Galbally, Co Limerick.

1872-built national school owned by cartoonist/writer Flann O’Riain has price slashed to €80,000, Tommy Barker reports

Joe Dermody enjoys a peaceful break in the Glen of Aherlow, Tipperary.

Rose Martin profiles a 200-year-old home near Mitchelstown, Co Cork

This airy, bright Mitchelstown house has a roomy 4,200 sq ft, with a house-sized kitchen/conservatory of 1,125 sq ft, writes Rose Martin.

VIEWS over the Bride Valley and a location with a panoramic sweep of the Galtees, Knockmealdowns, and Comeragh Mountains are some of the attractions of this Rathcormac house.

Tommy Barker says this property may have gone to the dogs twice, but it has many features to recommend it.

YOU can see the wood and the trees, and a whole lot more at this high Austrian house, in a pure Irish setting.

YOU can go large, or go mór, at this Moorefield home near Tallow in west Waterford — it packs a lot of property in its punch.

THE former ‘capital of Cork’ appeared to have been short-lived, according to archaeologists who believe it was destroyed by an invading army.

Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

HOW appropriate that Bryan and Kerry 'Queen of the Jungle' McFadden are rumoured to being buying Cooleville in Co Tipperary.

By Rose Martin