Agent: DNG Ella Dunphy of Kilkenny

Number of properties on the books: 81-plus. Four new developments and three properties in Inistioge

People are looking for: Dubliners looking for restful homes away from city and work

Fastest sale: The Motte restaurant, sold in six weeks to a Dublin restaurateur for around €600,000

Most expensive property: Moate House, a five-bedroom restored Georgian house on the corner of Mill Road and High Street for €500,000

Cheapest property: The Croft, a three-bedroom stone cottage on a third of an acre. Needs a new roof but lived in and comfortable. Asking €155,000

What won't shift? Nothing - can't get enough properties for the huge Dublin market

Average monthly rent for a two-bedroom property: €575

Daytime Inistioge: walking in Woodstock Estate, salmon and trout fishing in the Nore and browsing along the craft trail. View the motte and bailey and priory ruins. Great sporting area (hurling legend Eddie Keher lives here) with GAA, tennis, and soccer. Golf and pony-trekking at Mount Juliet. Strong ICA, painting group and St Colmcille's choir. Lunch at Circle of Friends or The Old Schoolhouse

After dark: dine out at The Motte or The Maltings. Music and a pint at Avril Lenehan's, O'Keefe's, O'Donnell's or Doyle's

Issues: trucks thundering through the village on the Wexford-Kilkenny route

in conversation with Kate McMorrow