Variety for your money

ALTHOUGH they look to be two very different house types, your €295,000 will buy you very similar specification homes in Blackrock or Boreenmanna Road in Cork city with agent Tim Sullivan.

Choices are a modern detached dormer bungalow at Melrose, just off the Boreenmanna Road, which runs from city link road towards Ballintemple, Ballinlough and Blackrock, or a modern four-bed semi in Rockfield in Blackrock village itself.

There are small enough gardens with the detached dormer at Melrose, a small cul de sac of just a handful of private homes, and it has three of its bedrooms at first floor level, with an optional fourth bedroom at ground level, which could also serve as a playroom.