Riverside country house with almost an acre of land

"GOD made Donoughmore and then he done no more," or so the saying goes.

Either way, the townland crops up regularly in property talk on the north-western side of Cork city, because it's one of the few places where you are allowed to build one-off houses.

This wide-spun area could effectively be described as the planning version of 'to hell or to Connaught'.