Trading up: Beaumont, Ballintemple, €550,000

THERE’S only about 40 large, detached homes in Cork’s Temple Vale in Beaumont, and they only very, rarely come up for sale.

The gable-fronted two-storey houses range around two sides of a green, with a dog-leg then hosting a few more Temple Vale homes on the way into the more modern scheme called Berkeley; the latter, again, is a collection of detached homes only, with several dozen more houses back here, around a second green.

Tempel Vale’s location is off Beaumont Drive and Crescent by Dundanion Road, popular with families, near schools, services, and Blackrock village.