House of the week

BILLED as “the closest family home in Cork city to the Statue with front and rear gardens” is Clyda, the first house seen on entering Cork’s Sidney Park.

It’s just 500 metres from St Patrick’s Bridge and the statue of Fr Mathew, a sort of pivot point for the southern capital.

Clyda might be called after a Co Cork and River Blackwater location, but its setting is pure Cork city, no mistake. Just up off Wellington Road, it has a number of highly regarded schools right on its doorstep for primary children, post-primary, as well as exam-cram schools and languages centres.