Home hunters looking for a bit of rural privacy and an individual home in an area as popular as Cork’s Rochestown should consider getting themselves to a monastery — or, at least, to Monastery Road.

The guide for this substantial four bed detached home indicates a resurgent market, writes Tommy Barker.

Cork’s longest-running food emporium, Cinnamon Cottage, has come up for sale in its 21st year of cooking and trading.

A bright cheerful interior, with lots of reds and whites and all easy on the eye, comes with 7 Abbotswood Avenue.

Sq m 102 (1,090 sq ft)

Dublin’s footballers and hurlers will treat the crowds with an exhibition match on New Year’s Eve at Round Tower GAA Club, Monastery Road, Clondalkin.

Gardaí are hunting a man who violently attacked two women, sexually assaulting one, as they walked home.

Gardaí in Clondalkin are today seeking witnesses to a serious assault which occurred at approximately 3.30am on Sunday, September 11 on Monastery Walk, Clondalkin, Dublin.

Tommy Barker finds a mellowing home in an American-looking scheme.

SLASHED to sell – no 18 Abbotswood Avenue in Cork’s Rochestown is now on offer at €330,000, down from an earlier ask of about €375,000.

THERE’s a vaguely American-look to the big homes at Abbotswood, off Cork’s Rochestown Road, and coming on the end of their first decade, the place is improving even further with age.

ABBOTSWOOD has its aspect and its woodland setting going for it — apart from its location off the Rochestown road on Cork city’s high-demand south side.

A BABY narrowly escaped injury when shots were fired into a house in west Dublin hitting the child’s father in the face.

Motorists in Dublin are facing delays this morning due to a series of road incidents across the city.

BACK on the market, having had a sale fall through, is number 8 Abbotswood Downs in the Cork suburb of Rochestown.

Motorists on Dublin’s M50 today face new road lay outs at the notorious Red Cow roundabout.

Rose Martin says Avondale in Passage West is in a healthy location.

TENS of thousands of commuters are to face further misery as one of the country’s most notorious traffic black spots is to be dug up.

IT’S not until you drive up that you get the full impact of Abbotswood, in Rochestown, Co Cork. The fact they climb up a hill adds to their impressive standing: these are big houses, even in the smaller types.

WATCH your back! A house named Sequoia, and with a tree of that large-growing type planted in its grounds, is for sale on a fertile wooded section of Rochestown, on the Monastery road.

DE-CONVERTED is the term used by auctioneer Tim O’Sullivan to describe this once four-bed but now three-bedroomed house at 7, Abbotswood Avenue.

SITES or houses? The alternatives are on offer in Abbottswood in Cork’s Rochestown suburb, where two very compact house sites are being chased towards the €300,000 mark apiece with Timothy Sullivan & Associates auctioneers.

BUILT only four years, the large family home 18 Abbotswood Downs in Cork is being sold by its US business executive owner, and leaves little for any new occupants to do other than pay up and move in.