Hold your horses for Grove House’s six acres

THERE’S a lot on offer at Grove House — especially if you compare this Kanturk, Co Cork, offering with anything else available near a major Irish city in the same sort of bracket.

The price for this period dwelling, on six rural acres with horse facilities and more, is €500,000 via agents Hamilton Osborne King.

Given that Kanturk has been selected as a decentralisation base for 100 OPW jobs (though don’t hold your breath for them), it’s interesting to note that there are slim pickings for Dublin house sales on their website (www.hok.ie) at this sort of sum: think of a two-bed terraced house in Phibsboro, or a three-bed semi in Santry at this €500,000 level.