Trading up: Glounthaune, Co Cork €420,000

The development of Cork’s industrial and employment base from the 1960s saw lots of ‘blow-ins’ decide to settle or build houses along the shoulders of hills east of Cork City, from Tivoli down towards Glounthaune and beyond.

Those ‘60s and ‘70s settlers came from Dublin and Dusseldorf, Sweden and Switzerland, many needing to be close to the burgeoning centre of Little Island.

Perhaps that’s the origin of this new-to-market, bungalow, called Solbacka, after a small town in Sweden.