Trading up: Skehard Road, Cork €265,000

Sq m: 102 (1,100 sq ft)

Back in the days when Kilbrack Lawn was being laid out, Cork’s Skehard Road was almost a road to nowhere, heading out in a line towards the end of the Mahon peninsula and the back of Blackrock. Now, it’s the road out to the retail goldmines and employment hub that is Mahon Point and City Gates 1 and 2.

The south ring road, and Jack Lynch tunnel infrastructure, really opened up this end-of-land peninsula, making it one of Cork’s most active suburbs. But, go just off the Skehard Road and into cul de sac Kilbrack, and all’s quiet once more, like it always was.