Trading Up: Ballintemple, Cork €550,000

A bit on the dated side, but still a robust family home for another generation of owners — that’s the detached No 6, Temple Vale, in Cork’s Beaumont/Ballintemple suburb.

Set by an expanse of immaculately maintained green with floral bursts, Temple Vale’s several dozen detached family homes were built in the 1970s by a Paddy Walsh, and compared to subsequent schemes which followed around Ballintemple, it’s very low-density.

The location’s very strong, and very private, off Beaumont Drive and Beaumont Crescent near Dundanion Road (where builder Ger McNamee of Lucen Homes is due to build four luxury homes on a prime corner bungalow site.)