House of the week

Just about everyone who bought into The Spires scheme in Innishannon, Co Cork, had a few bob left over for landscaping — and that’s an extra investment that keeps paying dividends.

Beneficiaries are the families who live here, as well as vendors if and when the time comes to sell up and move out — the place is ageing very well, and all the growth only adds to the privacy of the sites, many of them around a quarter of an acre.

The Spires was build in the mid-1990s by local man Fachtna Crowley and the dormers have always been popular trading-up buys.