Trading up: Glounthaune, Cork, €495,000

Beamier at the back than it is wide at the front is the four-bed, detached family home 36 Cois Chuain, on the edge of the Lane Builders development on the south-facing hills above Glounthaune, a short drive or train spin east of Cork City.

Estate agent Gillian McDonnell of Sherry FitzGerald seeks offers around €495,000 for the 1,650 sq ft two-storey home, No 36, in very good overall condition.

It turns up online as having been on the market last year, with other agents, then-quoted €550,000 AMV, so now it’s within grasp of a wider demographic.

No 36 is one of four neighbouring homes sharing access on to the public road uphill from Glounthaune, and has a west-facing back garden, with small patio and lawn, with a larger, higher sloping bed of shrubs up on another tier.

There’s also a well-shrubbed and gravelled compact garden, with off-street parking to the front of this brick and dash-faced home.

Internally, No 36 has a study left of the hall, and a living room to the right, and then the back is quite open plan, with family room, dining and kitchen all in a row and west-facing: the span of rooms is nigh on an impressive 38’ wide, and there’s also a utility room.

Overhead are four bedrooms, three of them doubles and one’s en suite.

VERDICT: Good interior spread, but outside garden play area might be tight for younger families.

Size: 153 sq m (1,650 q ft)

Bathrooms: 3

Bedrooms: 4

BER: B3