Prices for these homes at Ballinhassig start at €935,000.

WHAT do you do when your land gets rezoned and you find yourself with a couple of acres suitable for housing?

Sell, usually, but this farming family from Ballinhassig went ahead to build their own houses.

And they didn’t go overboard, either, instead they created just three, big houses on big sites in a little dingly dell to the back of Ballinhassig village.