A ‘red hot’ sale at Cork’s Red Abbey Court

ALWAYS a snap buy when they come up, Red Abbey Court houses are right in the ‘flat of the city’ and combine convenience with own-door privacy.

Add to that designated, secure parking in Cork city and you have an unbeatable formula for professionals and investors. The smart, but vernacular design and candy colours of the scheme are very nice and each house has rear access from the car park — handy.

Right now, Conor Flynn, of Conor P Flynn and Co, is selling number 28, Red Abbey Court, which is on the Dunbar Street side of the development, and comes with three bedrooms.

This house had been rented previously, but has been painted and re-fitted before sale, so it comes on the market in very good condition.

Accommodation includes a hallway with kitchen, to the front, and a living room of 16’ by 12’, to the rear. It also has a gas fireplace and patio doors to a rear yard.

Three bedrooms, with fitted wardrobes, are overhead, along with a main bathroom.

Number 28 has gas heating and is on offer at €405,000.

Two minutes from Patrick Street, this development is set in one of the oldest parts of Cork city. Facing the south parish church, the name of the infill scheme comes from nearby Red Abbey, a 13th century Augustinian Friary, of which only the tower remains. The tower was used as an observation post when the city was under siege, and the Red Abbey is also reported to have housed a sugar refinery, which was mostly destroyed by fire in the late 1700s.