Gate Lodge could be one for you

THERE’S a nice side to the property offering 1 Gate Lodge in Cork’s Blackrock suburb — the four-bed semi-d has a side garden as a bit of extra site bonus, along with a west facing back garden.

In at the very start of the 1990s O’Brien and O’Flynn development off the Castle Road near Blackrock Castle, No 1 has a lot of extra selling points in its favour, says Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald, who seeks offers around €315,000.

For starters, she notes, there aren’t a lot of semis in the scheme, which is largely made up of short terraces of three and four-bed homes — though there isn’t a whole lot of practical difference between an end-of-terrace and a ‘proper’ semi-d.