Gallery: Trading up - The Lough, Cork City €395,000

Barbecued duck, locally sourced with low air-miles, anyone?

Size: 143 sq m (1,545 sq ft) 

Bathrooms: 2 

Bedrooms: 3 

BER: D1

Best to take a bucket of veg peelings with you today, or Tuesday, if going to the open viewings at 5 Glendalough Park — the extended three-bed semi-d is right by The Lough, a wildfowl reserve in the heart of Cork’s south city suburbs.

As an amenity, The Lough is like Cork’s St Stephen’s Green, only it’s ringed by family homes, and No 5 Glendalough is one of the pairs of nestled semi-ds to its south-west.

Newly up for sale with Sherry FitzGerald with a €395,000 AMV, it has 1,500 sq ft inside in a reworked interior, with side garage conversion into a play room/bed four next to a shower room, plus a rear kitchen extension.

It’s in very good order, decoratively, they say and add that the work already done means “it ticks all the boxes for comfortable family living, all any new owners need to do is move in, unpack and start to enjoy their new life”.

The front room, with bay window, has Lough views as do two of the three first floor bedrooms, and behind is a family room and open plan kitchen/dining room.

There are several access points to sunny back garden, with a compact block-built shed, patio and a raised deck and seating section at the garden’s far end, where there’s a BBQ.

VERDICT: Glendalough should fly.