Regeneration — thanks to a bit of demolition

NOW you see them, now you don’t — these two adjoining bungalows pictured right are about to be flattened, and replaced by separate, detached brand new homes.

They’ll follow hot on the heels of something similar — but far more expensive, built next door on chic Crab Lane in Cork city’s suburbs.

Six years ago, a quarter acre site called the Paddocks here (at the Boreenmanna Road end of Crab Lane, which links to the Blackrock Road’s city end) was sold for over €800,000, and had a c3,500 sq ft big home placed on it.