Within a walking distance of the city centre

THE suburban setting of 24 Bernadette Way is so close to Cork city that it almost qualifies as urban. It really is on the edge of the town, before the suburban sprawl of the last half century gets fully into gear.

On the market just a few weeks, the detached house could hardly be handier set, just the second turn in off the start of the Boreenmanna Road, a two-minute drive to Cork City Hall via the link road, though only the brave or the foolish would try and walk this shortest-link route. Other walking routes are via the Old Blackrock Road, or the Ballinlough Road.

No 24 is a three-bed detached house, with an attached garage and has the look of a house begging for an immediate extension to the side, two-storey at that, subject of course to planning approval.