A chance to settle into the heart of the harbour yachting fraternity

YOU’LL have the yachting world at the end of your garden if you are quick enough at 1 Ard na Lí, in Cork harbour’s Crosshaven.

Or, if you want, you could just rent the place out to a yacht crew for the Cork Week extravaganza in mid-July, and take a cool €4,000 to €5,000 for the week, if you get it smartened up in time.

Simply put, you won’t get closer to the tented village that will roll into Crosshaven for July 15-21, when over 500 yachts will dot the water, and thousands of sailors will swarm the village.

The event, which takes over Crosshaven every two years, brings an estimated €6 million spending boon to the village, and lucky locals within a five-mile radius get to rent out their homes for an average of €1,500 a week, with prices ratcheting up for proximity to Crosshaven. And, if it seems exorbitant, it is a fraction of the rents expected for the Ryder Cup at the K-Club this summer.

Newly up for sale in Cork’s sailing centre is this early 1900s four-bed semi, with period trimmings and lots of architectural authenticity.

Listed with Roy Dennehy of Dennehy Properties in Carrigaline, it has a €600,000 price guide and will need modernising. New owners can choose to do as little, or as much as they want, he suggests.

Design-wise, it has the sort of external original Edwardian features picked up by developers O’Flynn Construction in the building of new homes at the far end of the village, but No 1 here has location in spades, on the Cork side of ‘Crosser,’ directly opposite the dinghy park and marina of the Royal Cork Yacht Club.

It has a long front garden, car access to the front of the house across the neighbouring semi, and a yard to the back.

Internally, it has four bedrooms, with the fourth on the stair return beside the bathroom, and the ground level has a large sitting room with high ceilings, bay and arch windows, cast iron fireplace, a dining room also with original fireplace, and the old-fashioned kitchen has a Stanley range which fires a few ground floor rads. There’s a pantry, walk in closet, and guest WC, mains services, good wood floors, and sash windows in need of TLC, or a paint stripping, caulking and varnish.