Gallagher pad is a rocking good buy

GREENBANKS is a contender for Cork house sale of the year. It isn’t just the link with local rock legend, the late Rory Gallagher, whose mother lived here for several decades: the house and its grounds are in a class of their own.

Although dated, the solid and sound c1930s house Greenbanks has property pedigree in spades, and a stellar suburban location as a trump card.

It is on three-quarters of an acre of private grounds, with ponds, pergola, patio and paving running down from the well-heeled Well Road to the bulrushes of Douglas Estuary, and it bounds the Mahon golf club on its western side with Douglas tennis club visible in the distance. Best views by far are from the master bedroom’s bay window and adjoining bedroom balcony, but just about every room revels in the estuarine, yet suburban, setting.