More to this than meets the eye

COURTRAY is a bit like the ducks on the nearby Lough in Cork city - all may seem quiet up front or above the water, but there's a lot going on underneath, or, in this house's case, behind the facade.

The double-fronted bungalow on a cul de sac section of Hartlands Road is actually a five-bed home of quite some size, and that's before you ever get told that there's a three-bed, self-contained apartment as well at the back.

And that helps explain the €620,000 price guide quoted by Johnny O'Flynn of Sherry FitzGerald in Cork city for this Hartlands Road home, which is within easy strike of UCC and the city centre.