Bird’s eye perch is a harbour delight

WILMOUNT Terrace in Cobh has a crow’s nest perch above Cork harbour - and that’s perhaps part of the reason why the daughter of a long-serving Cork harbour pilot lived at this address for many years.

Patricia O’Sullivan, daughter of well-known retired harbour pilot ‘Harmer’ Walsh, is now selling up her bird’s eye panorama perch.

No 3, Wilmount Terrace, a sizeable enough mid-terraced house is in fine fettle after a full building overhaul and carries a €350,000 price guide. “It’s like being on top of the world, the views are breathtaking, right around from Aghadha directly south to the mouth of the harbour and to Roches Point and back up the river again,” says selling agent Liz Hannon of Englishs in Cobh.

Accommodation, within includes four bedrooms, one with an ensuite shower, three look south and are relatively narrow: the main room is 17’ deep, but only 9’ wide, and the other two rooms are smaller again. There’s a fourth bedroom off the first floor return, and the main bathroom has power shower.

Ground floor space includes a deep hall, drawing room with marble fireplace, and a large 27’ by 9’ kitchen/dining room with fitted units. The property has been re-roofed, rewired, has double glazing (top hinged PVC) and double glazing, with a boiler house in the rear yard.

Meanwhile, also in Cobh, An Bord Pleanala has refused planning for a major foreshore mixed development on 10 acres at the ‘Holy Ground,’ including reclaimed land, that proposed hotel, 120-berth marina, 80-bed hotel, over 100 apartments and shops units.