Garden space adds to possibilities with detached Blackrock residence

GO for the gardens and you won't go wrong. You could pour money into the house, double it in size, still have a huge site, and its value would rise exponentially. That's because of its back garden vista.

Newly up for sale is 3, Sandy Lawn, a detached four-bed house in a small scheme off Cork's Castle Road, Blackrock.

Built on large sites in the late 1990s by O'Brien and O'Flynn builders, the house has over 2,000 sq ft of internal space, and a site of about a third of an acre, running down to an old estate stone wall bordering the Castle Road.