The old ones with modern flourishes are the best

Eskbank on Cork’s Old Blackrock Rd dates back 150 years but has modern flourishes, says Tommy Barker.

There’s fertile ground, as well as a top location, at Eskbank, a distinctive and detached Cork City home, on private grounds with a market garden/garden centre history, all within a walk of the city centre, and close to just about every daily-need amenity.

Dating back almost 150 years, to about the 1880s, the squarely solid home last sold about 18 years ago, bought by a young family who’d returned from the US, to run a bar business in the city.