Spacious, close to town and in show house condition is how selling agents Sherry FitzGerald Reynolds describe this four-bed house at 3 The Paddocks in Dungarvan.

By Eoin English

The early 1990s were a busy time for the family just now setting sail from 14 The Paddocks. They were family-building and home-buying - and there was a little matter of competing in the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 to contend with as well.

WHEN they were first built 15 years ago, the houses in The Paddocks on Maryborough Hill were probably the best new homes in Cork. Now, the biggest of the bunch and quite probably the best of them, is up for sale by its original owners who are trading even further up the residential ladder.

A MIDDLE-AGED woman screamed in fear as an intruder entered her bedroom on Monday night.

I AM a graduate student researching folklore, ghost stories and paranormal events. I would be grateful to hear from anyone with stories or reports about ghosts, hauntings, banshees, spooklights or any other strange or unexplained phenomena.

AND, they’re off, with yet another house joining the sale race at the Paddocks in Cork.

RECORD prices achieved in an estate usually have the effect of spurring on other owners to put up the boards.

THE PADDOCKS — where children may safely play and prices can gallop.

OUR prosperous times have caused a quandary for Limerick County Council’s planning department.

TWO detached properties are on offer in Glanmire, Co Cork, at the moment in the Glyntown area.

IT almost has it all: gardens of a quarter of an acre, walled with old limestone boundaries, once an orchard; an address to match, The Paddocks, on Crab Lane. Drawback? You'll have to provide the house yourself.

BACK on the market after its sale fell through, is number 4, Tirol Avenue, The Paddocks, one of those south Cork estates with built-in status and where houses usually sell very well.

IT was the bee’s knees when it first opened and it even won a few awards for its architect, Roddy Hogan, who also lives there himself.