Starter Home: Cork home has the city on its doorstep

 Tommy Barker views an accessibly-priced home near Cork city centre

HERE are old stone wall back boundaries, and a sort of clipped-on faux stone facade cladding in front of 5 West View, right at the city end of Cork’s Boreenmanna Road.

Dating most likely to the early 1900s, and with the quarry-set Rockboro co-ed national school school directly behind and beneath it, this mid-terraced home almost literally has the city on its doorstep, with the south link road junction just 100 metres away.