Trading Up: Tower/Blarney, Cork, €360,000

SET on a south-facing slope between Tower and Blarney, a short spin out of Cork city and a 15-minute commute back to Apple HQ with its thousands of jobs, is Shournagh Drive, named after a local river, and where the detached number 13 is now for sale.

The gable-fronted two-storey house dates back three or four decades, but is smart and tidy inside, has two of its four bedrooms en suite, and has a decent 2,284 sq ft within.

Estate agent Norma Healy of Sherry FitzGerald guides the end-of-cul de sac No 13, Shournagh Drive at €360,000 and says it represents very good value, especially as it is on a quarter-acre site, within a short distance of amenities, services, schools and sporting facilities, as well as being within a short drive of Muskerry and Blarney golf courses.

“The setting is absolutely perfect for those looking for all the benefits of country life while being so close to Tower and Blarney villages,” adds Ms Healy.

Rooms include a triple-aspect lounge/dining room with patio doors to the front of the house, which also links by an archway to the kitchen.

This room, and a second sitting room also off the kitchen, each have gas fires, and there is a den/playroom also, with garage alongside, plumbed for use as a utility.

Above, two of the four double bedrooms have en suite showers, and all four have built-ins.

VERDICT: A Shournagh thing