There’s a very good 0.65 acre site with this trading-up family home called Kilcrenagh House, in Cork’s Upper Rochestown, near the monastery and close to Monkstown and Cork harbour too.

Tommy Barker says that this upgraded one-off comes to a Cork area buoyed by several €500,000-plus sales.

FULL southerly views out over the back garden to green, green fields ground this 1,800 sq ft family home to its rural roots – but it is still only a couple of miles from Douglas, and four miles from Cork city centre.