Cork home Woodlawn has asking price of €3.8m

A Cork home that can justly claim to be one of the very best — if not the best — house in the southern capital, comes to market this weekend with a cool €3.8m asking price, redolent of the best of the boom-times values.

It’s going to be an absolute test of confidence in a now-recovering residential property market — and its sale will be keenly watched to see just how close to that price aspiration it gets.

Woodlawn, being sold by motor dealer, Bill Keary and his family, is up for sale as they are set to down-size, with family reared and moved on. After all, it’s big for a couple — at 5,500 sq ft of considerable and tasteful luxury (though only a four-bed) on more than an acre and a half of extraordinary grounds, running right down the River Lee at Sundays Well.