No need to hedge your bets on high class hidden gem

Typical Cork, isn’t it? Possibly the very best views in all of the city and valley are from a lofty perch, hundreds of feet up above sea level — and the house is called after a sandy beach on the other side of the world, in New Zealand.
With a name like Takapuna, you’d have to ask where a house got its name. Well, the owners of this place for the last 40 years had rented a house with that name when they got wed, nearly 50 years ago, and asked the landlord if they could take it with them when they moved on — a cheap, but happy, version of saying Takapuna is where they honeymooned, without having to actually go to Auckland in the southern hemisphere to make it any truer.