If you don't mind me being cheeky and asking for recommendations for kitchen companies please.
To be honest I haven't got any. It's been awhile. I did contact Cash and Carry Kitchens about 3 years ago for a price... a simple, cheap kitchen for a holiday home... they quoted me €6k (without appliances) for the cheapest piece of plasticky wood you could ask for.
I made my own - made the carcasses doors, installed sink, worktop etc. All in the timber work cost me about €2k and the appliance another €1k approx. and I ended up with a solid kitchen. I hand painted it with French White paint. Worked out perfectly for me.
From my shopping around... kitchens are now a mad price, lots use cheap mdf in their frames and even the fittings are often not the best.
The kitchen will cost you but again... keep it simple, don't go with fashion trends as they will get dated and then you're in trouble, simple kitchens can be repainted, new doors put on etc.
See what people are getting rid of in Cork on DoneDeal:
https://www.donedeal.ie/all?area=Cork&campaign=14&words=kitchen
I will have a look at Ikea, to think we used to be a 5 minute walk from the lovely swedish store and now it is so far away
All online now so you don't have to worry about it. I've seen tradesmen on DoneDeal offering a fit together service for IKEA furniture. You could look at kitchen layouts/carcasses/cabinets and see how you might take to them.
There's a kitchen company near Right Price Tiles (Ballincollig) to their left near entrance but unless you have a plan they probably won't have much to say to you. Kitchen companies are slow to get into details with customers anymore because they'd put in the work, help you with layout and print off a plan and not see the customer anymore.
Most won't give you a plan and if they do they'll charge you €50 or so for it (discounted when you buy the kitchen from them).
Make sure you have floor areas and wall area when you go shopping for carpet and tiles.
There are lots of tile shops in Cork... don't let Right Price Tiles be your only stop. They worked for me at the time but I did shop around and I did like the tiles I saw there.
Just one thing to be aware of... tiles often come in cheap but when they add in adhesives, grout etc. it seems to go up. Tile shops seem to make their money on the extras.
With a house over 3 floors ... don't forget to invest in stair gates!