Starter homes: Grange, Cork Price: €249,000

Size: Sq m 121 (1,300 sq ft)

Brand new to market is one of the Grange Road’s more modern builds, the detached 1,300 sq ft three-bed appropriately called Tír na n”g. Recently built as one of two similar and side-by-side new homes in the grounds of an older dwelling, it carries a €249,000 guide price with estate agent Jeremy Murphy, who says it’s an ideal family home, modern, comfortable and well-built, with a south-facing back garden.

The front sitting room has box bay window, there’s a rear kitchen/dining room, utility and a guest WC, and upstairs all three bedrooms are doubles, and one is en suite.

Mr Murphy describes the dash and tile-fronted house as “deceptively spacious,” and says there’s off-street parking for several cars, and a back garden with mature boundaries as a bonus, on the edge of Douglas village, easy to reach from he Kinsale road roundabout.

VERDICT: One of two adjacent ‘sister’ detached houses.