Solid family home offers peace and quiet close to the buzz of the city

“YOU wouldn’t hear a peep here,” says the selling agent of 14 Glencoo Lawn, an already extended three-bed semi-d off Cork’s Boreenmanna Road.

Glencoo is one of those mid-1900s-built estates between the Boreenmanna Road and Ballinlough Road — the latter only approached via a very narrow lane, which nicely cuts down through-traffic, to residents’ delight.

There’s around 1,400 sq ft here, says agent Garry O’Donnell of ERA Downey McCarthy, saying the owners extended to the side some years ago creating, in effect, a granny flat. Now, that extra space on the side has been more or less assimilated back into main family living/playroom space, and it also provides for a guest WC with shower.