Bandon: new beginning

Bandon, €298,000

BILLED as the first new house start in Bandon, West Cork, since the market’s fall off a cliff back in 2008, Ashgrove Meadows is just off the town’s bypass road.

Local man Tony Barry, who started in the construction trade in 2001, is behind the re-start at Ashgrove Meadows, with two of six houses getting under way this month and foundations poured (he’s finishing a school build project in tandem, with an urgency for September completion at Hamilton High.)