Trading up: Kilworth, Cork €240,000

Just how much more family home you get for you money if you go outside of Irish cities is shown by this spotless-order family home, called Denell Lodge near Kilworth.

Guided at €240,000 - the price of an average enough semi-d in the suburbs — it’s a 1,560 sq ft detached dormer with one of its four bedrooms en suite.

It has a sun room, with decking off it, there’s a handy selection of steel and timber sheds, and it is all on a decent rural site with paddock, just near to junction 14 of the M8 motorway. That put Denell Lodge just a short distance from Fermoy and Mitchelstown, or a half-hour commute to Cork city and the Jack Lynch tunnel.