Rose Martin is impressed with Glenn Árd, in delightful Castletownshend.

Rose Martin is impressed by a new scheme in Castletownshend.

TICKING away nicely, sales are almost at the one-third mark for the first new development in the picturesque village of Castletownshend in Co Cork.

CASTLETOWNSHEND is the little village which was home to one half of the Somerville and Ross team, writers of the Irish RM stories.

MAMMIES who are inclined to run along the rim of a skirting board with a knitting needle covered in a duster will murmur with pleasure at the order displayed in number 9, The Lawn, Moneygourney.