Ideal family home well located on city side of Douglas

AN easy walk to the city centre, to Douglas and to a range of schools are just some of the attractions of the detached Cork suburban family home Ormond.

Up at the top of Bellair Estate, off the main Douglas Road near St Finbarr’s Hospital, the superbly located home is also on a bus route. It has a trendy deli called Joup just around the corner, good local shops and services (tennis courts, even, just up the Ballinlough Road) and is on a bus route as well, with direct links to Mahon Point and to UCC in opposite directions.

Built by Denis McCarthy in the ’60s, altered again in the ’80s (by its then-owner, an engineer), and likely to be upgraded again to personal tastes once sold, it is in an excellent location and would make a handy base for a family keen to get on the city side of Douglas and to avoid the traffic congestion east of that suburban village. Being able to walk or cycle to work and school/college is a real bonus too for any family thinking of trading up and moving in. (Most of Bellair’ s 24 houses are large semi-ds, and a few of them have been extensively customised over the past few years.)