Charm of olde worlde

TOWER near Blarney in Cork is set to continue to witness rafts of new development - and this puts older style dwellings into an increasingly rare availability category.

On the market at the €250,000 level with Hamilton Osborne King is an old stone cottage, Tower Valley Lodge, by the all-weather hockey pitch within a short commute of Cork city and of Blarney itself.

Done inside and out in olde worlde style, it has two ground floor bedrooms and scope for a third occasional bedroom on a mezzanine/gallery overlooking the kitchen/sitting room. One of the bedrooms is en suite.