The sale of a church building and an adjacent development site in Cork’s Sunday’s Well is understood to be progressing between UCC and the Vincentian order.

I’ve started seeing this delightful senior citizen like myself, I met her on a dating site called All My Own Teeth.

Sorting out Cork people for ages...

Knocking down and replacing isn’t anything at all new in Ireland’s house market, and especially so in rising and buoyant markets (current tail-end 2018 economic jitters notwithstanding,) all the more so again in strong, ‘bullet-proof’ locations.

The death has occurred, at the age of 89, of Loyal Goulding, Ardmahon House, Well Road, Cork, and one of the great characters of Cork and Irish golf for many years.

This open-plan, 646 sq ft detached house is just a 15-minute commute to Cork city and a cosy alternative to an apartment, says Trish Dromey

ONE of the joys of a south-facing home is having all your best, ‘good’ rooms up the front, bathed in sunlight.

Ask Audrey has been sorting out Cork people for ages.

It needs modernisation, can be easily added to but as Tommy Barker suggests it’s got a Cork posh swagger about it, just ‘Ask Audrey’.

There’s a dearth of house sites left in Cork’s affluent suburbs. It’s conquer and divide, says Tommy Barker.

A drink driver had to get a jail sentence for dangerous driving that seriously injured a woman who was a passenger in the car, the judge said yesterday as evidence was given of the driver ignoring appeals from passengers to slow down.

Tommy Barker reports on a rarity in suburban Cork, a five bedroomed home in Hettyfield, Douglas

Well-built Well Road home has the space and finish to give it wide appeal, writes Tommy Barker

A 29-year-old Cork man who was making a threat to kill a woman in Cork accidentally discharged a shotgun during the incident, it emerged yesterday.

It’s not very often that you get a home of this size and quality near Douglas, and mere minutes from Cork city centre. Tommy Barker admires the perfectly up-to-date Lisheen, a fine large home sitting pretty on over 0.6 of an acre in leafy Woodview

Despite, having just had a notional ‘change of address,’ the owners of Clondoyle, or 5 Browningstown are still on the move from their extended suburban Cork family home.

Although Curraheen needs work, it’s a Well Road prospect well worth considering.

The very convenient location is set to be a big attraction at the open viewing day today for this two-bed property, writes Trish Dromey.

Tommy Barker steps into a secluded one-off home with a sunny disposition and super quality build and finish.

Cork’s unique agony Aunt fields your questions.

With its Irish name meaning fort, and named after Dingle in Kerry, this house called Daingean is in as good an old, suburban setting as you’ll find in Cork.

There’s practically a new home feel to the interior of 3 Douglas Hall Mews, despite the fact it’s coming up on 30 years of age: it’s because its owners did it all up from top to toe, when they moved in just five years ago.

PRICES are back on the march in Cork’s suburban and high-end Hettyfield: but, they are still are a long way short of boom-time levels of €1m and even €2m asking prices and sales.

APPROPRIATELY, there’s a view still to be had down from the wooded grounds of 2, Carrs Hill, to the exquisite spire and grounds of St Luke’s Church in Cork’s Douglas — the in-spired view is relevant, because this house was for most of its life the rectory that housed the various clergy and their families.

A Cork suburban house sold for €2.4m — more than €500,000 over its asking price — is being hailed as evidence of recovery and emerging confidence in the upper end of the house market outside of Dublin.

Former home of artist Gladys Leach has great gardens and access to a virtually private park, finds Tommy Barker.

Just off the Well Road, and on a corner site with south and west garden and patio aspects in the Ardmahon estate in the greater Douglas/Ballinlough suburban hinterland is this large, five-bed family home, called Glencairn.

A retired primary school principal from Co Clare has lost an appeal against his conviction for molesting 11 girls over a 21-year period.

Pitched as much at traders down as traders up — or just those keen on a strong location — is this bungalow called Inish, on Cork’s Well Road.

The sale has closed on the former Lovetts’ restaurant in Cork’s suburbs, for 20% over its guide. 

Many hundreds of apartments got built in the ‘noughties’ in and around Cork city and suburbs, but only a fraction of those were designed for full-time, owner occupation.

The address might say Lake Lawn, but the setting is high, and dry, above the Well Road and Mahon/Douglas estuary, between Cork’s Douglas and Ballinlough suburbs.

The builders are coming to Cork’s Skehard Road, following on the €850,000 auction sale last week of a house on 1.25 acres there, and with a dozen or two dozen new homes now expected to replace that old five-bed dwelling and its garden. 

THE €255,000 pricetag is within the reach of the better-off first-time buyers, and No 9, Douglas Hall Mews, will receive first-time-buyer attention, as well as catching the eye of traders-down.

Past school friends wept and embraced in court after a jury found a former school principal guilty of 59 indecent assaults over a 21-year period.

Size: Sq m 116 (1,250 sq ft)

Tommy Barker uncovers venerable Douglas village hideaway called Curraghbeg, on a remarkable-sized acre and a half in Douglas.

Size: Sq m 116 (1,250 sq ft)