Family-friendly €575k Glenanaar is right up your (Bishopstown) Avenue

Proven suburban location where family homes pass through generations: this home has seen three but is now up for grabs

Glenanaar 3 Bishopstown Avenue West, Model Farm Road, Cork

Bishopstown, Cork City
€575,000
Size	140 sq m (1,505 sq ft)
Bedrooms	4
Bathrooms	2
BER	F

BISHOPSTOWN Avenue isn’t just one of those ‘locations for life’ – it’s also a location for generations of families.

Long front drive and lawn to 3 Bishopstown West

In suburban terms, for family rearing, education and work, it’s top of many home-hunters’ lists.

If seekers wanted proof, the profile at Bishopstown Avenue West is that many of these mid-1900s homes get handed down, handed over or sold from parents to children, and now from grandparents to grandchildren.

That’s the observation of the vendors of Glenanaar, or No 3 Bishosptown Avenue West, a smartly presented four-bed semi-d that has been linked to the same family since 1970, owned by an older generation back then, going to a next generation and then lived in by a third, with small children, so effectively a fourth generation of the clan.

“We think five of the houses here, or about 20%, are now lived in or owned by the grandchildren of the original owners,” says the vendor of Glenanaar, with inter-generational links deepening back in Ring, Waterford, with a clan migration there towards the sea.

They’ll miss the utter convenience: “There’s a creche just down the way and its owner would come up and collect the children from their homes, maybe four or five of them in the morning. My daughter didn’t have to leave the house to drop them off. Where would you get that?” adds the grandad vendor.

Glenanaar is up for sale with agent Sean McCarthy, of ERA Downey McCarthy, who guides the family-friendly place at €575,000, pointing to its setting and conveniences.

“It’s all about location,” says Mr McCarthy. It’s close to the Model Farm Road and Wilton/Bishops-town, shops and services, schools from creches to nationals, secondary options and tertiary ones too, all within a walk or cycle.”

Sports? Highfield rugby pitches are almost a drop kick away, there’s basketball at Fr Mathews on the Model Farm Road and the GAA club is reachable via a field and paths to the west.

Sports injuries? A&E at CUH is three minutes away, next to Laburnum Park, with that hospital’s back entry point as good as on the doorstep, in a neighbourhood where vigilance is a byword for old-fashioned values.

No3 is in good shape, has had interior refurbs done in stages, had its drains addressed decades ago and is more than holding its own after a recent engineer’s visit to check. It has an F BER, though, and is likely to get energy upgrades into the future.

An adjacent detached house is a modern replacement after an original was knocked, while the row further down along shows all sorts of extension and upgrade options too.

The Price Register shows two sales at No 1 and No 2 earlier this year, at €352,000, but they’re different styles. No 5 Bishopstown Avenue West, aka Tullamoy, sold in 2023 for €575,000.

VERDICT: You’ll be buying for the long haul. What are the chances someone who grew up locally will come calling?