The O’Flynn Group this weekend launches a brand new development of 144 new-builds. 

Development land just east of Cork city, at Glounthaune and near the commuter rail station, has come up for sale, described as “a prime residential development opportunity” by Frank Ryan and Seamus Costello of Cushman & Wakefield.

Hot on the heels of a recent multi-million euro sale agreed of Carrigrohane Castle a kilometre away across the River Lee as the raven flies, and in a different price league too, is this high and hillside family home, in walk-in condition, called Naomhóg.

BACK a few decades ago, when the mansard-roofed detached dormer Springmount was first built, it might have seemed a bit ‘out in the sticks’. But, now — while it is still reached just after a charming rustic chicane bend in the road by Carrigrohane’s Rocklodge — it seems as if many metaphorical roads are leading towards it.

Group to issue recommendations on local government in September, says Eoin English

The chair of the expert group reviewing Cork’s city boundary and possible merger of the city and county councils has promised full engagement with stakeholders.

The environment minister has given an expert group nine months to review the case for the first extension of Cork’s city boundary in 50 years.

There were four house types built at the 33-unit scheme Mitchell’s Court, in Kerry Pike, just a short haul up the shouldering hills of Cork heading towards Blarney — or, towards Kerry, if you were to take the old butter roads.

Cork County Council and Irish Water have issued a boil water notice to almost 80 parts of the county due to fears that the supply was contaminated during Wednesday’s storms.

KERRY PIKE, CO CORK €270,000

COBH, CO CORK €300,000

Forget the tiara, the cash prize, the jet-setting lifestyle, and the year-long high profile.

THE last time this 50 acres (20.23 hectares) farm at Coolymurrahue hit the market it was touted at €40,000 per acre, or €2 million.

AND on the western side of the city, in the little village of Kerry Pike, a four-bed cottage, Alverna, is just on offer at €235,000.

IT takes a bit of smart thinking to move houses in the present market and builders, Coleman Brothers, are not backwards in thinking forwards.

THE days of the ‘free gaff’ are over — at least for parents who buy into Mitchell’s Court in Kerry Pike, Co Cork.

ONE of the Government’s night-time rural bus services which was piloted in a handful of north Cork villages could be expanded across the region to combat rural isolation.

THE LAURELS in Kerry Pike has always been the schoolteacher’s house, and the vendor is the last of six professionals to occupy it.

THOUSANDS of people will get the chance tonight and tomorrow night to see alterations to route proposals for the most expensive highway ever planned for Cork.

A man died today in a house fire outside Cork city.

A FARM in Kerry Pike, Co Cork, should stir quite a bit of property development interest as - despite its Green Belt zoning - it’s just five minutes from Ballincollig, and 10 minutes from Cork city.

A CATASTROPHE is about to be visited on the Lee and Shournagh valleys at the behest of the NRA and Cork County Council, aided and abetted by developers and politicians with vested interests.

‘CARMEL’ comes with an enviable location in Cork’s Green Belt - not to mention on the banks of the Lovely Lee.

PLANS for a €300 million tunnel, up to five kilometres long, are to be lodged with the National Roads Authority as part of the proposed northern ring road around Cork city.