Trading up: Ballinhassig, Cork €250,000

Sq m 140 (1,500 sq ft)

Bright and cheerful - that’s the butterfly-shaped bold yellow bungalow called An Feidhleachain, the lyrical-sounding Irish word for butterfly.

The detached house, home to a musician and conductor of lyrical note and with a grá for the Gaeilge, is just for sale, between Kinsale and Ballinhassig in Co Cork.