City site quietly up for grabs on Cork's 'Millionaire's Row'

City's Blackrock Road has had at least 16 houses sell for over €1 million: this site is going for over €2m

A strikingly large pair of late-Georgian semi-detached houses, Nos 1 and 2 Ashton Place, plus a small cottage, on 1.68 acres of primely set land at the city end of Blackrock Road is being quietly marketed to niche builder/developers. Picture: Dan Linehan

THE words ‘prime development site’ have rarely rung as true as they do in regards to the low-key offer of a ‘millionaire’s row’ plot on Blackrock Road, Cork City, which is already making €1.25m an acre — about the price of a singular ‘good’ house in the locale.

Blackrock Road is home to over 16 individual private homes that have sold for over €1m in the past decade, many for multimillion euro sums, while two large new builds are set to commence construction shortly, replacing a bungalow bought for €1.13m and likely to be priced at c €1.5m and c €1.7m.