Trading up: Lackaroe, Youghal €320,000

Space, inside and out, comes as a given with this modern, five-bed detached home north of Youghal.

About six miles from the coast and harbour town and just on the Cork side of the river Blackwater near Glendine along the Tallow road, this detached 3,000 sq ft home is set at Ballydaniel, Lackaroe.

It’s listed with local agents Property Team Noel Mackey, jointly with Jeremy Murphy Associates in Cork city, and they guide at just over €100 per square foot, or €320,000. That’s for a comfortable, well-kept and well-plumbed (three en suite bedrooms) family home, on a rural site just shy of an acre.