There are two sources of viewing interest being shown in this clean, modern Tower, Co Cork, bungalow, and they are more or less at far ends of the age scale.

Trish Dromey admires two good choices within walking distance of each other in Cloghroe and Tower, Co Cork.

This extended home hit the market, and these property pages, in the first week of January, and was quickly under offer: then, it went ‘Sale Agreed’ just a month or two afterwards, as the primroses did, indeed return in spring to Primrose Hill in Tower, near Blarney.

No need to wipe your shoes when you enter No 6, Gleann Fia, in Cork’s Tower – it hasn’t got any floor covering yet, just bare concrete.

House deals in the €700,000-€800,000 price bracket have been agreed in Cork’s environs in recent days, for an immaculate Victorian semi-d on the Blackrock Road, and again at Spur Hill for a 3,250 sq ft modern home on three acres: both houses had featured extensively in these pages, and found bidders and buyers very smartly.

Dunmanway, Co Cork €130,000

JOURNEY’S End towers above its setting in more ways than one — the extra-sized family home on a large plot is on the very uppermost site in Towering Heights, Tower village close to Blarney.