€441,000 for cottage

Springwell near Midleton in east Cork, a two-bed waterside cottage, with its own pier and shoreline boundary, surpassed its guide price by over €100,000 at auction.

WELL, yes, as the pre-auction headline was right Springwell in east Cork was "outstanding amongst its piers."

The waterside cottage, with its own pier and shoreline boundary, proved as hot an auction mover as anticipated in the run-up to its sale last week.