Starter homes: West Cork €45,00-€80,000

Size: 500/1,000 sq ft

It’s no pig in a poke — this Rosscarbery farmhouse close to food producers Caherbeg Freerange Pork could have its next owners in hog heaven .

One of two do-er upper West Cork properties new to market with Andy Donoghue of Hodnett Forde auctioneers in Clonakilty, this is a c 1,000 sq ft two-storey farmhouse in a derelict state, but hopefully salvageable. It comes with equally old, or perhaps even older, stone outbuildings on an acre with distant sea views at Caherbeg, a couple of miles as the pig trots from Rosscarbery and five miles from Clonakilty.