Trading up: Magazine Road, Cork €575,000

Almost an oddity in its location, and a rarity too, is the triangular-shaped Loreto House, off Cork city’s Magazine Road.

Set near the junction with Hartlands Avenue, it is sort of a hidden home, with its gable front glimpsed like a slice of Battenburg cake, at the end of a 125’ long private drive, where house and site fan out widely at its end, making for a site of over one-third of an acre in all.