Room at the Inn for an entrepreneur

A Cork bar and one-time coach house, with 130 years of hospitality history, is up for sale, with a food focus most likely in new ownership.

Having been rented out for the past several years by its owner Gary O’Donovan, who heads up the 16-shop strong O’Donovans off-licence chain based in Cork, The Rochestown Inn goes on the open market this week, with joint agents Cohalan Downing, and Morrissey’s in Dublin. Its guide price is €575,000.

The Rochestown Inn is in a prominent, outer suburban position at a road junction on the Cork/Douglas road to Passage West/Monkstown, at the foot of Monastery Hill.