Tommy Barker reports on a crisply-built property that offers superb design in a great, western location.

A VALUE of over €1 million per acre has been put on what is surely one of the best located suburban Cork sites to come to market in a decade, in Bishopstown, close to the CUH, third level colleges and the city’s ring road.

Cork City Council is developing a €2.1m supported-student accommodation complex in the western suburbs for young adults at risk of homelessness.

This home is in a highly popular location, just off the Curraheen Road, near schools, shops, services and the sports facilities at the CIT.

AN investment with an annual rental income just shy of €90,000, with most of it coming from a bookies as ground floor tenant, is up for sale, guiding at €1.25m.

This home ceded some space but still has a lot to offer in suburban Bishopstown, says Tommy Barker.

A FORMER church-like Victorian school building converted to offices, next to what’s been used as a Tridentine Church in Cork City’s Shanakiel/Sunday’s Well is up for sale.

Retail giant Dunnes Stores has been accused of “giving two fingers to the people of Cork”, after apparently ignoring the Lord Mayor’s request for a meeting to discuss the closure of one of its largest city stores.

There’s a lot on the side, and to the front, of 85 Uam Var Drive in Cork city’s western suburbs.

New charges were brought yesterday against four men arising out of an allegedly serious incident at a house in Bishopstown, Co Cork, on St Patrick’s Day where assaults were carried out and criminal damage caused.

The general market wisdom is that if a bungalow comes up for sale in any of Cork’s older, settled suburbs like Bishopstown, it would simply fly out the door. 

Three men appeared in Cork District Court yesterday on assault and damage charges arising out of an allegedly serious incident at a house in Bishopstown on St Patrick’s Day.

The four houses in Cork’s Limewood Court were meant to be a calling card for a far-larger Bishopstown scheme of houses, back in 2008 — but, the recession put paid to those plans.

First time buyers have been out in force this year and, as economists wrangle about the possible impact of the Central Bank’s proposals to change mortgage deposit requirements, they are continuing to shop.

Sq m: 115(1,240 Sq ft)

Cork City Council has approved the use of a former hospital as a third-level college.

Sq m: 98 (1,050 sq ft)

Size: 130 sq m (1,400 sq ft)

Sq m:191 (2,055 sq ft)

Sq m: 102 (1,100 sq ft)

Sq m: 162 (1,750 sq ft)

Sq m: 162 (1,750 sq ft)

Uam Var Drive property is on offer at sub-€200,000 price, Tommy Barker reports.

We scan a selection of trading up homes from around the country

ENABLE Ireland/Lavanagh Centre is buying a seven-acre site west of Cork City for future development/relocation uses.

COBH, CO CORK €300,000

DOUGLAS, CORK €330,000

There was a disappointing start to the opening round of the Munster Junior Clubs Challenge Cup with only three of the scheduled seven games going ahead.

Sporting offers are to be sought for the former ESB Workers’ Association grounds at Cork’s Curraheen Road.

Two off-beat properties have sold this week in Cork — one an island linked to developer Gerry Gannon, which fell €1m in value in a few years, and the other a nine-bed retirement home.

A commercial future use almost certainly beckons for Abbeyfield House, being sold on behalf of a charity on Cork city’s Curraheen Road, right opposite the Melbourn Road junction.

HOME at last — the Munster Agricultural Society (MAS) has finally found permanent exhibition grounds at Curraheen, Cork, following five years of searching.

DRILLING works on the massive N25 road project in Cork are being extended to seven days a week.

AS a practising Roman Catholic and proud to be so, I am appalled at the bias in reporting by certain sections of the media in regard to our clergy.

LATE-NIGHT revellers are being offered transport home to several satellite towns in Cork in a new initiative.

PLANS for a “local retail centre” in Cork’s western suburbs have been shot down after councillors voted unanimously againstrezoning.

A GAMBLER who was under pressure to repay his debts climbed a drainpipe to get in through a first-floor window of the parochial house in Ballincollig where he stole €7,000 in cash.

FLEETING glimpses is all that most passers-by get of the finished apartment scheme Bridgefield, on the edge of Cork’s Bishopstown suburb.

THE planned sale of a 140-year-old hospital will help fund the move to a new €55 million hospice facility, west of Cork city.