A bridge too far? Overgrown, half built home could be a dream for a realistic buyer who can see the wood from the trees

You might need a machete to do the first clear viewings of this Lee Valley home in the making — but, for those prepared to hack past the overgrowth, and to look beyond the overgrown boundaries, a treasure just may lay in waiting, looking to be unearthed.

Up for sale at Inniscarra Bridge, within a stone’s throw of the Ballincollig Regional Park and carrying a price guide of €185,000 is the chance to build — or, at least, to complete — a detached home, rather euphemistically described by its selling agents OM2 as “a dream home in suburbia.” It could be one in waiting, though, but ‘suburbia’ is a stretch.