Lord it up at Kelvin, a Well Road classic

It needs modernisation, can be easily added to but as Tommy Barker suggests it’s got a Cork posh swagger about it, just ‘Ask Audrey’.

BACK in 1951, when Kelvin was built, it was practically the last staging post of the spread of Douglas, and of Cork city’s south and east quadrant.

Old family photographs from the early ’50s show the new, detached house just sited and bedding down, looking out over the Well Road to the Douglas estuary in one direction, across the Well Road, with farmland behind and beyond the side and back boundaries of Kelvin, much of it grazing land for what was then Bresnans’ farm.