Laurel Bank period home in Montenotte overlooks Cork Marina

Tommy Barker admires a home that’s been enjoying a southerly vista for 200 years.

Having sold the childhood home of Ryanair’s chief marketing officer, Kenny Jacobs, estate agent Sherry FitzGerald now have the house next door for sale.

Just listed this month is the large, semi-detached 1800s-built period home called Laurel Bank, or No 7, Lower Montenotte Road, and it stretches to 3,500 sq ft, over four floors of relative grandeur, facing south over the Lee and the Marina.