Starter home: Suburban style in Cork’s Millstreet

Millstreet, Cork €150,000

ESTATE agent Catherine Pomeroy has sweet memories of this Liscahane home near Millstreet: when she used to visit as a child with her mother, the woman of the house always kindly showered her with truffles. Now, it’s payback time.

“My God, as soon as I got to the door the memories all came flooding back,” she admits as she is now charged with the house and orchard sale for the same neighbour. “It’s a home which people have been admiring for years, myself included.” Another neighbour “used to go there with his friends and rob the orchard; the man of the house told them, ‘knock on the door any time’ and take all the apples they wanted, there was no need to steal them. I believe his wife took them in for tea and biscuits.”