Starter homes: Ballintemple, Cork €195,000

Size: 76 (820 sq ft)

Chances are you won’t have heard of Cherrington, or have been in past its tall stone access gates — unless you’re nosy, as it’s a quiet, unassuming cul de sac off a busy enough road.

There’s less than 20, perhaps a dozen and a half or so houses, in all, in this hidden residential niche, off Churchyard Lane in Cork City’s Ballintemple. Directly across the road is the Eircom site, just being sold for new house building, and also nearby is Cork Con’s rugby grounds, a pitch and putt club, and the public park and pitch at Beaumont Quay, one of the southside suburb’s little treasures, with a boys and girsl NS in its midst.