House of the week

THROW a stone out the door or front garden of Holmville, at 92 Sunday’s Well in Cork city, and there’s the chance you’ll hit a medic, or one of their families.

Give it five minutes, and there’ll be a doctor attending the stone-hit victim — and probably a lawyer or two also... this venerable old city suburb has played host to all of the well-heeled professions.

And, Holmville in its midst has current and previous links to one of Cork’s old medical families, the Conlons, and only comes up now to market as part of an executor sale, with agent TJ Cronin of Irish and European, who guides the period-era home (but not a rigidly planning-controlled protected structure) at €495,000.