House of the week: Enniskeane, West Cork Price: €525,000

Size: 345 (3,700 sq ft)

With a neighbouring period home recently sold to UK buyers for a reported circa €1m, there may be positive straws in the wind for Mount Lodge — priced around half the sum of that most recent substantial sale.

Just confirmed is the changing of hands of Enniskeane’s Kilcolman Rectory, a handsome gem of nearly 7,000 sq ft, on five acres, in top condition. It dates to the 1850s, was built for the nearby St Mary’s Church, and has had several improving owners in the past two decades. Kilcolman had served as a country house guesthouse, has three guest cottages, and sold via agent Michael H Daniels who reports a good pick-up in the country home niche.