Cover story: Monkstown, Cork €525,000

Size: Sq m 303 (3,250 sq ft)

THE current owners of Monkstown’s Summerland moved into it in 1957, about 100 years after this harbourfronting villa was built. And, for most of its life before the family’s long occupancy, it served as a rectory for the local Church of Ireland, from about the 1870s.

Only back on the market, this one-time rectory carries a €525,000 asking price — and huge promise — via agent Malcolm Tyrrell of Cohalan Downing. It’s a quiet, post-Christmas cracker for those with a bit of energy and even more money to lavish on it.