Trading up: Carrignavar, Cork €300,000

Size: 144 sq m (1,550sq ft) 

Bathrooms: 3 

Bedrooms: 4 

BER: C3

Home-hunters able to travel a few miles north of Cork city, beyond Whitechurch and Carrignavar towards Faggott Hill, will get a good bungalow home on a quarter acre site, for the price of a city three-bed semi-d.

With a fresh looking decor is Gortnalahee, a single storey home of just over 1,500 sq ft, which has two of its four bedrooms en suite in high-ceilinged shower rooms, has two reception rooms, Stira attic access and well-kept gardens which include two block-built outbuildings (one is plumbed) for adaptable storage/home office uses. A sun room, off the kitchen/dining area, overlooks the rear garden.

Selling agent Gillian McDonnell of Sherry FitzGerald guides this C3 energy-rated home on a quarter acre at an even €300,000, and says it’s a bright and walk-in job for its next occupants.

Rooms included a Shaker-style kitchen with painted dresser and oak worktops, a front to back 23’ by 13’ living room with wood-burning stove plus patio access, and that sun room with a southerly aspect, vaulted ceilings and overhead Veluxes.

Families will appreciate the fact two of the four bedrooms have showers en suite

VERDICT: About 10 miles from the city, Gortnalee’s on a road with lots of one-off bungalow homes, so doesn’t in any way feel remote