Trading up: Maryborough, Cork €350,000

Sq m: 112 (1,200 sq ft)

The high winds of winter may have blighted gardens and forestry, felling trees all before them, but the upside is the opening up of new views, and extra sunlight in places previously in shade.

Now, some recent tree felling at the grounds of Maryborough House Hotel has let more light into the mature gardens of 44 Lime Trees East, a 1960s estate. Here, No 44 backs up to the grounds of the successful hotel and its acclaimed acres of woodland grounds on the edge of Douglas Village, a few minutes’ walk away.