Builders will bid on former Cork builder’s €2.25m prized family home grounds

Poplar Choice: The Poplars was built in 1995 on the grounds of a demolished period house Villa Nova, owned by the late Cork home builder Denis McCarthy

Potential: the tree-ringed  The Poplars is in the grounds of Villa Nova on Cork's Douglas Road. It's on 1.62 acres and estate agent Sean McCarthy of ERA Downey McCarthy guides at €2.25million.

A PRIVATE wooded garden site of 1.62 acres on the city end of the Cork’s Douglas Road is likely to draw developer interest to The Poplars — and that could be apt as the lands it was built on was privately owned for years by the late Denis McCarthy, a house builder very active in Cork’s southside suburbs in the 1960s and 1970s.

The Poplars/Villa Nova entrance