Trading up: Clarkes Hill, Rochestown €430,000

New house developments have come a-plenty to the area around Clarkes Hill and Garryduff in Cork’s Rochestown: there may have been as 2,000 homes built in the last few decades ‘round Mount Oval, since the time Hill House Cottage itself was built on its own plot.

Size: 195sq m (2,103sq ft) 

Bathrooms: 2