Starter home: Ardmore, Waterford €100,000

Sqm 75 (802 sq ft)

OOD place to hide out from Oliver Cromwell — that was the Lincoln family’s reckoning when they fled Waterford City in 1650 to Grange, on the Cork county boundary near Ardmore.

Lincolns had been Lords Mayor of the city, and while the wealthier ones fled by ship, the less-well-off family members went by road, to tiny Grange in West Waterford, and have maintained links there since the two Cromwellian Waterford sieges.