Master of the mount

THERE’s an expression “first in is best dressed”, and it applies many times over to the one of the first houses glimpsed driving into Mount Oval Village in Cork’s Rochestown, set to forge a price record for the development.

The headline-making 800-house scheme, modelled around a village concept with shops, bar, restaurant and a huge variety of house styles, is over half-way through development, with the entry point on Clarke's Hill already well matured just two years down the road.

Now certain to cause a flurry is the sale of one of the biggest, and possibly the very best house, in the whole development.