Dead certs in a dead end — dead on

A DEAD-end doesn’t really sound like an appealing place in which to live — but the approximate French translation, cul de sac, has a certain residential desirability ring to it.

A cul de sac setting translates in silken estate agency-speak to leafy enclave, with no passing traffic.

Estate agent Tim Sullivan in Cork city has two Blackrock suburban semis newly up for sale, each in cul de sac locations, though the ‘leafy’ description doesn’t fully apply to either.

He seeks €360,000 for 63 Willowbank, a part-brick facaded house built in the early 1990s off Church Road. With front and back gardens, one reception room and a kitchen/dining room, as well as one of its three bedrooms en suite, it has extension scope.

Also new to his books is 24, The Crescent in Rockfield, the other side of Church Road, a similar vintage and specification semi with possibly a more attractive exterior design.

This also is in a cul de sac, and looks out on a big green. Asking price is €367,500.