Rare offering in a secluded area

THERE aren’t many detached houses on the market in Shanakiel - ever. Which makes the sale of Woodside House a bit of a blue moon event for selling agent, Conor Flynn of Conor P Flynn and Associates.

And, as it’s one of those quietly wealthy areas of the city, it has already had plenty of viewing interest, he says, from residential buyers and also from developers.

Directly off the Shanakiel Road, and on the Sunday’s Well end of this steep hill, the property has huge privacy, despite the taming of it’s tree-lined boundary in the past month. Set behind high stone walls, part of an old estate of which Shanakiel Hospital was the mansion house, the property is high up over Cork city on a south-facing slope.