Price drop at sought-after suburban house scheme

BUILDERS don’t tend to travel too far from their natural bailiwick – Munster’s house builders tend to stick to the cities and counties they are most familiar with, and can service/develop with ‘a man in a van’

A bit of an exception back in the 1990s was Maryborough Court, a scheme of 40 or so houses built by the well-regarded McDonalds of Waterford in the Cork suburb of Douglas.

They joined the throng of competing local builders as Maryborough Hill had started what turned out to be two decades and more of house development – it is still in train, with even more houses planned for Douglas Golf Club in a medium to long-term course relocation proposal.