No 7, a class opportunity at Sidney place

IT’s moving out time today for school pupils at No 7 Sidney Place, Wellington Road, a mid-Georgian building high above Cork city - and now for sale, as the school departs its several levels.

The four-storey over-basement property has had a huge range of uses in its illustrious past: it ranged from private residence to guest house, to restaurant, and to language school, and finally private school.

In the last several years, it allowed the girls of Scoil Mhuire secondary school to decant into No 7, when renovation works were underway in their adjacent buildings, Nos 1-3 Sidney Place, and with a major new classroom and science labs extension to the rear, on Sidney Hill, just east of St Patrick’s Hill.