Original of the species

WITH Blackrock Castle as a neighbour, and some of Cork's finer individual period homes all in a row, Castle Road in Cork is a special and covetable address.

New to the market here in a spot favoured by Sunday walkers, and an area targeted by Cork City Council for improvements, is one of the road's original 19th century homes, Rockmahon House.

Part of a terrace of three Blackrock village homes (which might at one stage have been just two, or even one home), each with individual architectural features, it is semi-detached on a spacious site of one-third of an acre with a garden gazebo by the roadside.