You could keep dogs or hens, free-range children, or even perhaps build another house/develop a site, to the side of this three-bed semi-d at 11, Manor Lawn.

TUCKED away at the end of a wooded cul de sac, number 11, Manor Lawn, in Cork’s Thornbury estate on the Rochestown Road, offers country living in the city.

THREE storey and three bedrooms, this town house at 3, Manor Lawn, is part of a new development at Ovens, Co Cork, and is in the vanguard of re-sales.