Boatyard site launch

NOT only have the boats sailed or sunk, but the tide has run out on a Cork harbour site up for sale, with a lapsed planning for 72 apartments.

A former boatyard site right by the water’s edge at Ballynoe, Cobh island, and next to the Cross River Ferry, was put up for sale six years ago for a boom-time €9m: now, it’s due for sale by auction on May 2, guiding just €150,000

The site, on the market with David McCarthy of Lisney, is 1.72 acres and has the hulking tall sheds remains and a 1,375 sq ft warehouse from its former boat yard and boat repair use as a location marker. There’s extensive water frontage — about 160 metres along its western boundary, and about the same amount of road frontage, while the now-lapsed apartment plan envisaged some reclamation to bring the full site area to two acres.