THERE’S a reassuring ‘heft’ to the look of houses in Cork’s suburban Temple Vale — they are as robust and solid inside as they appear from outside, across their square-faced, assymetric front facades.

High stone walls line Churchyard Lane in Cork’s Ballintemple, but the duplex apartments at Templehill House manage to overlook them in any case. 

Tommy Barker says Cork houses have broken the million mark by the dozen in 2005.