Cooleens — old family home mix that holds lots of fresh promise

A fine home close to the city centre sits on one acre of land Tommy Barker reports

DIRECTLY south-facing, utterly private, on a suburban acre site rooted and ringed with mature trees and within ten minutes’ walk of Cork’s city centre, yet with a Douglas address — the family home mix that has it all is called Cooleens.

Coming up for sale for the first time in its 104-year history, Cooleens is a dormer with a difference, on enough gardens to quite properly be called grounds.