Shamrock Place, space and grace on Cork's Blackrock Rd

Reporter Tommy Barker and photographer John Roche deliver a taste of the many attributes of a nearly 3,000 sq ft, 1940s property believed to have been built originally for a local Jewish family

Sun, 13 Sep, 2020 - 13:05

WHEN buying a home that’s over 70 years of age, there’s surely some consolation and peace of mind to know it has been lived in for half of that time by a family with professional involvement in one of the country’s largest civil engineering and construction firms. There are directorial links to Cork-based PH Hegarty & Sons, so you sort of know it’s been well-kept and enhanced and is solid as a rock.

So it appears at the luckily-titled Shamrock Place, on the city end of Cork’s Blackrock Road, which has been consistently improved, and enlarged, with age, and is now both wide and deep, and L-shaped. It’s on great grounds, with an attached garage, and has lots of parking, all behind private electric access gates put in after its main road access was improved with a curved set-back in the front boundary wall.