A scenic stroll from village life

A NEW green route walking path, through woods and along the glenside of the Donnybrook stream, will link the house scheme The Vicarage with the very heart of Douglas village in Cork, and, almost coincidentally, make it an easy stroll to the suburban village’s two churches. And schools. And shops, bars and everything else.

Already being put in place, the 1km woodland path will go behind existing houses along Carr’s Hill, and link up with the existing scenic pathway behind the 1990s apartment scheme Cois Coillte, en route to the village. The walkway ends in Douglas near Daily’s shop, St Luke’s NS and the community park.

The Vicarage, being built by Frinailla on Carr’s Hill, is a harbinger of things to come, the development company hopes, as it pins its colours at this location to high-end, low-density housing. It has already completed high-end and high-density apartments in the urban renewal (reinvention, really) scheme City Square, in Blackpool, and is building on a prime site at Dennehy’s Cross, with another site in hand at the Good Shepherd Convent in Sunday’s Well.