Convenience and size make No 64 a winner

A SIDE entrance to a big back garden, a super-convenient Cork city southside location, and an asking price of €300,000 will all help drive No 64, Connolly Park to a sale.

Carrying a Ballyphehane address, and accessed either via Connolly Road or Pouladuff Road, this three-bed city home is a short whirl around the way to the south city ring road via Tramore Road, and is also on a regular bus route.

It is a new 2008 market arrival with agent Christy Ryan Associates, who says it is pretty spacious, and the good, more than decent-size south-facing back garden is a real bonus, he adds.

Mr Ryan pitches it at first-time buyers, and all the essentials are in place, such as gas heating, windows have been replaced and it has been re-wired, so new owners might just have to look at a more modern kitchen and some other decorative tweaks. Given the amount of DIY, hardware, tiling, wood floors, bathroom and furniture stores in the hinterland, a do-er upper will be spoiled for choice in fashioning a make-over.

It overlooks an open green to the front, while to the back popular post-Leaving Cert college Scoil Stiofain Naofa on the Tramore Road can be seen.

Accommodation at 64 Connolly Park takes in a 14’ by 11’ living room, kitchen, hall with understairs storage, ground floor bedroom or second reception, and two overhead bedrooms plus main bathroom.

It will be an easy house to keep and maintain, with concrete front drive for off-street parking, while the back garden has lots of space and existing sheds, and would allow a good-sized rear extension with plenty of green left over.