Blarney Street home offers great views, easy access and biblical links

GOD brought Moses to the top of Jordan’s Mount Nebo, and showed him a glimpse of the Promised Land, according to the Book of Deuteronomy.

Sat, 26 Jul, 2008 - 01:00

Cork’s Mount Nebo House is a place also with prospects, if not promises, according to the Brochures of Sherry FitzGerald.

Mount Nebo faced the walls of Jericho and is where Moses ascended from the Plains of Moab, and in fact is said to also be Moses’ final resting place.

In Cork, Mount Nebo House faces the gable wall of the High House bar, and is set well above the plains of the river Lee and the city. Cork’s Mount Nebo is a bustling residential avenue, and below it, just off Blarney Street is Mount Nebo House, being vacated by the religious and missionary order, the Daughters of Charity.

Instead of being Biblical proportions, it is more prosaically described as having 2,000 sq ft of space, and seven bedrooms, all on a site of 0.28 of an acre, which makes it one of the more interesting detached houses on offer currently on Cork’s north side.

Its other address is 279 Blarney Street, but this is misleading: it is so set-back from the road as to feel almost rural. Although its approach avenue is very narrow it may even have some further development potential, for those more into profits than prophets.

Virtually all of its grounds are in front of the period-era house, which faces due south, and they slope away to allow the full panorama of views reign supreme.

Directly south is the new Jurys Hotel and Lancaster Gate apartments, barely impinging on the views behind again of St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, and UCC is off just to the right. Off to the east, and best seen from a first floor bedroom gable window, is Cork’s version of the Promised Land, the docklands and its developable 400 acres.

Michael O’Donovan of Sherry FitzGerald is selling for the Daughters of Charity, and guides the very well-maintained property at €700,000. It has two main reception rooms, kitchen/dining to the rear, seven bedrooms (removing partitions could make for a smaller number of larger rooms) and there’s a garage behind as well, with good parking to the side and front.

Given it is only a 10-minute walk from the city, Mount Nebo House may be bought for residential use, or may suit for part-office use or some other further development, says the selling agent.