Spacious sites and prime locations give east Cork cottages extra appeal

HAVING too much ground around you can sometimes be as much of a liability as a blessing: it can sound the death knell of a modest building in cases where the ground is worth more than the dwelling.

That may be the case in two sales coming up just east of Cork city, in Glanmire and in Glounthane.

In salubrious Annmount, Glounthaune, estate agent Michael Downey of ERA Downey McCarthy is selling a solid but dated, extended single-storey, three-bedroom cottage on an acre site. It’s already a grand example of the modest cottage species, and needs modernisation at the very least, but its fate may be more grievous than that.