Tirol the horse lives on in house development’s name

Tommy Barker finds Cork houses named after racehorse Tirol are stable buys.

EXTENDED to the back with a sun room and breakfast room in a distinctive add-on with vaulted timber roof, this home 3 Tirol Avenue on the edge of Cork’s Douglas village is one of the first of its type to come up for sale for several years. And, it’s going to come under heavy viewings.

Tirol Avenue, in the Paddocks scheme on Maryborough Hill, got its name from its developers’ interest in horse racing. Businessman and builder John Horgan had spotted the potential of a horse called Tirol, trained it up and he went on to win major races including the Classic 2000 Guineas in Newmarket and the Curragh, before enjoying a retirement stud career in Ireland and India.