Cottage near city creates stir in market

YOU’D barely know it was there, but it is creating an immediate market stir.

A very basic single storey cottage, barely habitable, but on a half acre site, hit the market with a €190,000-plus price guide and has been swamped with viewings.

Reason? Proximity to Cork city's ring road network: even though the feel is pure country, the setting is less than half a mile from this strategic traffic artery, at Lehenaghbeg/Pouladuff, Togher. The detached cottage, part of an executor sale, has storage heating and has been re-roofed, but needs a pretty full overhaul.