Starter homes: Garravagh, Inniscarra €149,000

Size: Sq m 100 (1,100sq ft)

More or less billed as a knock-down job is this three-bed detached bungalow at Garravagh, up the River Lee from Cork city and just a mile or so from Ballincollig at Inniscarra.

Guided at €149,000 by agent Barry Nagle of Global Properties, this house is on a south-facing site just a long field away from the river, by the old Inniscarra graveyard. The site, by a bend on the road, includes old sheds, also in quite poor condition.