In quiet Arvalee enclave

THE word ‘enclave’ could have been coined for the four houses at Arvalee, in Cork’s Frankfield suburb.

Set apart from the bustle of the city and removed from the larger housing estates, Arvalee is a niche of four, big, detached houses, built on a site bought by four separate buyers in the late 1990s, each of whom built their own homes (a location marker is the limestone Church of Ireland church and pretty, Gothic-style, former old-lodge building to the east).

Douglas village is a few minutes’ drive one way, and the Kinsale road roundabout and ring road are the same, short jaunt in the other direction