A little pre-Christmas gift well worth unwrapping

Barrack Street, Cork City €150,000

Small, sweet, and almost promising by its address alone, No 42 Prosperity Square is a bit of find. In fact, it’s a lot of a find, in a small and well-wrapped parcel.

Set on a corner here off Cork city’s venerable old Barrack Street, facing into the entrance to this enclave of artisan homes grouped in and around the square, No 42’s a tiny two-bed, with its chest puffed out a bit by a bit of style, and opened up more than its original layout would have allowed for, thanks to interconnecting rooms through its ground floor.