Hi-tech and hi-spec — this stunning hillside home simply has it all
Up on a south-facing hill at the end of Sunday’s Well in Cork city, and tucked into mature trees under Shankiel, it is a privately-set home with unstinting specification. Built in the mid-2000s, it has a €1.1 million asking price, and has all the evidence of costing that and more to build and fit out to this level, on this site. Pride of place goes to what looks like a novelty, but is in fact a highly useful gizmo, a turntable used to turn cars around at the end of the stone-cobbled drive so that drivers don’t have to worry about reversing. It is slick, it works, and it will bring joy to any aspiring train buff who’s hankered after this sort of thing after seeing Thomas the Tank.
It is just one very practical example of the amount of thought that has gone into getting this 2,800 sq ft house and terraced gardens into its tight, steeply sloping and elevated site. Location is up near the end of Rose Hill, more or less above Wellington Bridge but hidden by the summer swathe cloak of greenery on trees: height-wise above the River Lee, it seems to be on a par with the mid-section of County Hall.
