Trading up: Dripsey, Lee Valley €400,000

The sum of €400,000 will now buy you ‘only’ a certain size and type of home around Cork’s Ballincollig, or Blarney, but, it will get you twice the property if you go up along the scenic Lee Valley, towards Dripsey.

So says Dripsey native and estate agent Robert O’Keeffe of Irish and European, as he launches this very fine, upgraded, detached home, right by the Dripsey River.

The five/six bedroomed home is on a much-tended, heavily planted, and highly productive elevated 0.66 of an acre, about 2km up along the river Lee and hopping over reservoirs, from Cork City.