Pivotal point property at the Kinsale Road roundabout

BACK at the commercial market’s height, land in key Cork suburbs was fetching €2.5m/3m an acre.

Then, this high-visibility site by the city’s strategic Kinsale Road roundabout was bid up to a considerable €9.8m in the turning-point year of 2007, but the sale stalled as the market plummeted.

Now, it’s back on a much-chastened market, still in its pivotal setting, only now priced at €800,000 (€260,000 an acre,) via agents Savills.