Starter homes: Glanmire, Cork €235,000

Size: 95 (1,025 sq ft)

A careful stables conversion, No 2, the Stables, on Glanmire’s Church Hill Road, is side-by-side with its similar counterpart — and, on the bright side, all of the hard conversion work is well done at both.

The old stables of the local Glen Marvyn House were converted 20 years ago, for human habitation, and No 1 was for put for sale in 2007, priced at €380,000.