Named with prescience, now so desirable

THE VICTORIAN builders of the two-up, two-down houses that hug the hills off Cork’s Barrack Street had a sense of irony in their name-giving.

Consider Prosperity Square, for instance, a then warren of houses with outside toilets, named ahead of its time and hardly recognisable today.

Those old builders showed prescience - these houses now command prices way above their station. In an age where apartments are never larger than 800 square feet, these inner-city dwellings combine the best of apartment living with own-door ownership and a location that’s second to none.