Melbourn Estate in Bishopstown has alway had a sort of American suburbs layout and feel to it, much in part due to the way it was laid out, back around 1969, with all front gardens undivided and rolling one to the other another, with neat lawns along its length, between Curraheen Rd and Model Farm Rd.

I AM appealing for pictures of the long-closed Cork and Macroom District Railway, the 24.5-mile line which commenced at Albert Quay in 1866.

THEY built them big in Bishopstown.

THE site is the key at 23 Allendale - it's a whopper.