Small and cute like a mouse

Belgooly, Cork €479,000

WHAT’S in a name? In the case of south Cork’s Mouse House, everything. It’s overrun with ‘mice’, but not real ones, rest assured — so put the cat on stand-down. But there is a menagerie of mice: from toy mice to ceramic mice, wooden mice to woolly mice, mouse sketches, drawings and paintings and punning images of mice going about their business.

Mouse House is the quirky name the owners gave this diminutive house when they bought it, starting an amusing avalanche of mouse-themed house-warming, Christmas and birthday gifts.