Monkstown, Cork €475,000

Size: 165sq m (1,780sq ft)

There’s no ‘diamond in the rough’ quips about this Diamond Hill Monkstown home - it’s pretty smooth operation.

The upgraded 1940s dormer bungalow up on Diamond Hill’s heights had modernising work done and overseen by local architect Dermot Coveney who included dormers and an apex window over the hall entrance. It is on a smashing one-third of an acre site above Cork’s Monkstown, facing south and east over the harbour.