Suburban serenity in Cork

Rose Martin visits a leafy south Cork City suburb where an arts and crafts-style house hits the market early for the autumn pick-up.

THE suburbs are a joy in summer — especially those of the leafier variety. The clamour of playing children is removed to the gite, the villa or the West Cork cottage and birdsong prevails.

Seventy or more years of maturity means there are more old trees in Hettyfield, Douglas, than in many recreation parks and with huge site sizes, boskiness abounds.