Spacious Mount Oval property is in good shape

ROCHESTOWN'S Mount Oval in Cork city's southern suburb is a name that has currency in the property stakes: the address alone packs a powerful punch.

Thirty years ever before O'Flynn Construction's large Mount Oval Village scheme (topping out at about 800 homes) was conceived, the Mount Oval name was applied to a far smaller scheme, by the foot of Clarke's Hill, where these red-brick, faintly colonial style homes have weathered extremely well.

Up for sale in this 1970s scheme done by Pine Developments is 4 Mount Oval, the family home of architect Donogh O'Riordan, a Limerick man who became one of the southern city's most successful architects with a number of well regarded projects to his company Reddy O'Riordan Staehil's credit.