Period home sure to draw strong interest

PASSAGE WEST sounds like an adventurous route in America's golden age of expansion, but in Ireland it is a fast-growing village/town overlooking and alongside Cork harbour.

It has already had a surge on new house building, and residential developers O'Brien and O'Flynn are in the planning wings waiting on a grant of permission for hundreds more homes on the city side, Passage's largest ever scheme, while the dockyard is also overdue for development.

But, just as sites are snapped up all about, the area still has its homes of period distinction, ranging from large terraced houses to Georgian and Victorian residences of character.