Elegant, renovated cottage with a smart, Blackrock Village address

THE word bijou (meaning small and elegant) might have been coined to describe Dundanion Cottage. The smart, two-bedroomed house has an equally smart Blackrock Road address, a renovated interior - brightened by a large roof light - and a private, south-facing back garden.

Dundanion Cottage is by the Maple Leaf bar, in Blackrock Village, a mature southside suburb on the River Lee that is undergoing a significant renewal.

That regeneration includes hundreds of new homes in the grounds of the Ursuline Convent. Also, 120 apartments, proposed for the Cork boat club site, are currently in the planning process.