Suburban home still has green views

WHEN Avondale was built 18 years ago, the location was distinctly country in feel, at Garryduff in the rural end of Cork’s Rochestown.

Now, the city’s suburbs have come out this way with a bang, with an 800-home scheme Mount Oval Village built behind as the largest of the bunch: in all, there may be close on 2,000 homes built in the Upper Rochestown area in Avondale’s wake.

Despite this building surge, the view from the front of this two-storey, 2,300 sq ft property is still relatively green. Its colonial-style porch directly overlooks the Garryduff sports complex, where the amenity grounds include all-weather pitches, pitch and putt, cricket, bowls, hockey, soccer and tennis, while there are also wooded walks.