"Hugh Wallace meets people transforming derelict properties into modern home, beginning with an Australian cabinet maker restoring a Co Mayo house with 110 rooms."

"Murray Rees has always wanted to live in an elegant old townhouse and couldn\u2019t believe his luck when he found one he could afford in North Inner City Dublin. Buildings in this area were used as bedsits and had fallen into total disrepair. Murray is keen to save this 1840s building and return it to its full potential."

"Ronan Fitzpatrick and his fianc\u00e9 Mary Rahill are restoring a local two-room schoolhouse built in the 1890s as their family home. It has extra significance for Ronan as he and his father before him went to school there as children."

"Irene McDermott has a strong personal connection to the cottage she is restoring on the Inishowen Peninsula in Co.Donegal. Her great, great, grandmother lived here and it has been in her family since famine times."

"Goretti Foreau and her French husband, Eric, have decided that now that their older kids are in college, they want a lifestyle change and so they are moving lock, stock and barrel from Dublin city to the rolling hills of Rathrum, Co. Wicklow. They\u2019ve bought an old farmhouse and agricultural outbuildings that need significant and extensive restoration work to become habitable."

"Belfast born Garry and Anne Wilson have lived and worked in the UK all of their adult lives. They have always wanted a base in Ireland and in 2016 they were in the market for a restoration project and came across Belvelly Tower House in Cobh Co Cork."

"Dublin born Fiona Kelly has serious ambition. Having purchased a dilapidated Georgian terraced house in the heart of Phibsborough in north Dublin, she has a mammoth project on her hands. With slanted door frames, crooked floors and a tumbling roof, Fiona and her building contractor friend Philip, have taken on a building on the brink of collapse."

"With three children all under the age of 5, Belinda and Lorcan Carpenter have decided to convert three farmyard barns into their dream family home. Set in the picturesque hills of the Wicklow Carlow border on the grounds of Belinda\u2019s childhood home Munny House, the barns need extensive renovation and conversion work in order to transform the dilapidated donkey house into a bespoke family home."

"This week, Karen Whyte and her partner Donnacha Curley, purchased Grove House a few years ago with a plan to save it from dereliction. Empty for years, the building was damp, water-damaged, and largely unloved. A native of Westport, Karen is keen to restore the building back to the grand home it once was."

"Ronan and Charles are the proud owners of Kilglass House in Longford, an 18th century former rectory in dire need of rescuing. Born and reared in London, Ronan is fulfilling his immigrant parent\u2019s dream of returning home to Ireland."

"Borrisoleigh native Frances Doherty kept a close eye on the sale of her childhood doctor\u2019s house over the years before purchasing it in 2017 for \u20ac67,000. Together with her husband, Tom, the couple\u2019s dream is to create their forever home in Frances\u2019s childhood village. With a coach house and numerous outbuildings, Frances plans to have the project finished in time for her imminent retirement."

"Carolyn and Michael McDonnell, together with Carolyn\u2019s brother Henry, joined together to purchase this expansive property in Castletown Geoghegan. Built during the famine, the property was last in use as a hotel but it had deteriorated at a surprisingly fast rate over its three unoccupied years."

"Hugh Wallace is back to chart the highs and lows of home restorations in Ireland. In episode 1 Hugh is at the restoration of a former Post Office, in Butlerstown, Co. Cork"

"Restaurateur Aoibheann MacNamara is embarking on an ambitious but sensitive restoration of an old Land Commission cottage in the middle of the protected environment of the Burren."

"Lough Key, Co. Roscommon: A derelict cowshed on a grand estate finds new life as a contemporary family home."

"In episode 4, Hugh Wallace meets artist Cora Murphy who has taken on the challenge of restoring a city townhouse and shop front, on Douglas Street, Cork."

"Hugh Wallace is in Rockhouse, Co. Cork where school teacher Grace Cotter and her landscape gardener husband John are restoring what they think is a modest Georgian farmhouse."