A challenge for people with vertigo

THE gentrification process began early for this house at number 3, Harbour View in Cork’s Summerhill North when the venerable old building was rescued in 1991 by its builder-owner.

Now like a new property on the inside, this is just one of four houses in a terrace that faces onto Summerhill South and runs below St Luke’s Church, now owned by businessman Pat Dineen.

Skips, scaffolding and chutes are the latest designer look in the quarter and the building boom has ensured that the neighbourhood, which is listed as historic by Cork City Council, is returning to its former glory.