Government is pressing ahead with construction of an €80m Garda headquarters. It is part of an ambitious, nationwide plan to build and refurbish Garda stations.

Estate agent Jackie Cohalan will ‘split’ the difference with home hunters in 2017, offering split-level living options in locations like Glanmire and at Passage West, where she’s selling a dozen serviced sites, including five for split-level, new-builds.

No 33 Chestnut Meadows is not only one of the larger house types in this popular, trading-up Glanmire development, it’s also on possibly one of the very largest sites within it.

This is guided at €675,000, and is reached off a short, discrete shared access with low stone avenue walls off Church Hill.

Zones and assorted levels within and without, for full-on family activity, characterise the large and accommodating family home at 7, The Avenue, in a cul de sac section of the popular Castlejane development in Cork’s Glanmire suburb.

High-end Ros Na Laoi gives a different interpretation to the expression ‘builder’s finish,’ says Tommy Barker.

A rear extension, plus an attic conversion should put 52 Upper Glencairn on the radar of buyers looking to trade up with a growing family in Cork’s Glanmire, and greater region. 

There’s room for families to spread out in the detached homes at Cork’s Chestnut Meadows, a scheme facing around a green, above Glyntown in the Glanmire area.

Built just over 20 years ago, the part two-storey, part-dormer 2,200 sq ft family home called Snugboro could not be more centrally set in Cork’s Glanmire community.

Two buying types looking at accommodating home, says Tommy Barker.

After a long wait, new homes are being built in Cork’s Glanmire, with four-beds priced at €275,000 to €375,000 for semis and detacheds (see advert page 7).

A larger, 2,700 sq ft five-bed detached home at Crawford Woods had a swift sale last month with Sherry FitzGerald, making just under its €585,000 March asking price, to close in July at €570,000.

Not all of the new house developments built in the boom were of the same-same design and quality.

Tommy Barker looks at this spacious ‘no expense spared’ quality build with lots of light and shade.

The pristine No 5, Gleann Caoin, is a split-level four-bed in a quiet cul de sac in Cork village, says Laurie O’Flynn.

It is only 650 sq ft, but it’s elegant and on a lush quarter-acre in Glanmire.

BRANDON at Kilcoolishal, Glanmire offers half an acre of sheltered, mature gardens and the space to trade either up or down.

This cottage’s private rural, river setting has great grounds for a unique family home, writes Tommy Barker.

A lovely acre. That’s what the extended 1950s family home called Aisling Géarr stands on, above Glanmire village, a short distance from Cork City, with glorious views stretching back to Sarsfield Court Hospital, away in the distance, across a valley.

With plenty of space on three levels, and plenty of bedrooms, No 5, Crawford Manor, is a well-laid-out family home almost with rooms to spare, says Tommy Barker.

Small old cottage sits on half an acre in residential Glanmire area, wrotes Tommy Barker.

Elmgrove home has wonderful valley views, writes Tommy Barker.

Sq m: 153 (1,650 sq ft)

Sq m: 217 (2,340 sq ft)

Sq m: 108 (1,195 sq ft)

Sq m: 142 (1,560 sq ft)

Sq m: 140 (1,500 sq ft)

Price: €435,000

A GOOD interior, a good BER rating, wall insulation all improved and ready to walk into — that’s the three-bed semi-d at 42 Heathervue.

I AM finding it very hard to write this article. It should be easy, even on a sunny day like today and the house quiet as a church.

Ardmore, Waterford €275,000

Two bungalows may have the same price, but the attractions are different. Tommy Barker takes a closer look

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

GLANMIRE, Cork €475,000

TURNERS CROSS CORK €150,000

A YOUNG Irishman’s poignant message in a bottle which he threw from the deck of the doomed Titanic has gone on public display for the first time in almost a century.

TWO of the six survivors from the Cork Airport tragedy are still in Cork University Hospital’s (CUH) intensive care unit after suffering serious injuries during the crash.

ACCOUNTING was the flavour of the afternoon for the Leaving Cert and presented more than a few posers for the higher level students, especially those in all-Irish schools.

WITHIN 24 hours of its opening, 15 babies had been born at the country’s newest maternity hospital.

AN inspection of a secure unit for troubled teenage girls found eight absconded from care over a 10-month period, one for 17 days.