Starter home: Poulanargid, Macroom €120,000

All set for a new future is the former pub/post office at Poulanargid, in the folds of woods and hills off the main Cork-Macroom road, near Lissarda and Kilmurray. 

Estate agent John O’Mahony of O’Mahony Walsh in Ballincollig has this rare enough offer, on an acre, guiding at just €120,000 for a building of up to 3,000 sq ft, and already re-roofed and partially renovated. It’s on a corner site, with road frontage, in a quintessentially rural setting, yet with a school bus service.

VERDICT: Great scope in the right hands, at the price.