Charmer is rock solid

This terrace has the city on its doorstep, plus plenty of room and loads of character, writes Tommy Barker

For such a big house, with some prominence (albeit on a side street) it’s surprising that 20 Rockboro Road has stayed under many househunters’ radar up until now.

Terraces don’t really get any shorter than rows of just three houses, and the 1890s-built No 20 just off Cork city’s Old Blackrock Road is the right-hand side end-terrace home among three stone-faced houses within a stone’s throw of the city. Literally. Go to the end of the surprisingly long back garden, on its cliff-like rocky perch, and you could throw enough stones to stop the traffic on Cork’s south city link road as it comes to an end by the Elysian tower.