Starter home: Timoleague, West Cork, €149,000

Huge heritage and history lies on the doorstep of West Cork’s Timoleague village - but 4, Station Road is a modern interloper.

Sq m 95 (1,015 sq ft)

Bedrooms: 3

Bathrooms: 3

BER: C1

The private and village-set home has side access to a good-sized back garden with post and fence boundaries and some mature planting, there’s parking in frontparking and just over 1,000 sq ft within, with one of its three bedrooms en suite.

Selling agents Sherry FitzGerald O’Neill guide No 4 (near Abbey Street and the 13th century abbey) at €149,000 and say it’s well designed, with kitchen/diner with large glazed section overlooking the garden, has a main sitting room with corner fireplace, and has oil heating, with double glazing in hardwood frames.

VERDICT: Community living near the sea