Starter homes: Sunday’s Well, Cork €130,000

Size: Sq m 78 (840)

If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley finished his Ode to the West Wind with that poser, and a lofty pad like Hawthorne Ville — on Cork’s Winter’s Hill — might well inspire its next occupants to lyrical flights of fancy.

Spring’s already in the air at this Winter’s Hill city address in the run-up to Sunday’s Well, with the greenery budding around this hideaway home.