Second prize catch on banks of River Lee with €460k new arrival
What a catch: No 6 Kelleher's Villas faces the Ballincollig Regional Park from the end of its 0.35 acre site
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Coolyduff, Inniscarra |
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€460,000 |
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Size |
97 sq m (1,050 sq ft) |
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Bedrooms |
3 |
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Bathrooms |
1 |
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BER |
Pending |
NEW to market No 6 Kelleher’s Villas on the banks of the River Lee is the second house in this row at Cork’s Coolyduff, facing the Ballincollig Regional Park to come for sale within a month of one another, but in many ways, it’s a different kettle of fish.
This two-storey, older era but charmingly set semi-detached home arrives with a €460,000 AMV quoted by Con Nagle of Global Properties.
It follows hot on the heels of No 1 Kelleher's Villas, also appropriately called River Cottage: that great catch came along as recently as April '24 with a €420,000 AMV via Sherry FitzGerald, being sold for hotelier Mark Flynn of former Imperial Hotel family connections who bought at covid times as it gave him just a 15 minute commute to the South Mall.
Instagram-friendly No 1 had a pictorial spread in these pages not once, but twice, in early April and also just before it sold in 2020 for a recorded €411,000, and has now gone ‘sale agreed,’ at a bit under €500,000 after close to 30 viewings.
Since, the Flynn family have sold the Imperial to hotelier Louis Fitzgerald, in a c €25m deal, and Mr Flynn moved to another of his family's group Kilkenny, having netted over €75k k profit during his short tenure here.
He'd only barely dipped into River Cottage/No 1 Kelleher’s Villas, which was an immaculate, full-reworked single storey home done up by international angler and property advisor Pat Falvey. At just over 1,000 sq ft, it had with two bedrooms, crisp contemporary interiors and large sliding doors to a big patio/deck, cantilevered so that it almost seems to hover over the river, Lee, with the 140-acre Ballincollig Regional Park over on the far river bank.
The viewing profile of that walk-in, dive in condition compact home was quite broad, mostly singles and couples keen on a high-end, easily kept home (it has also sold back in 2018 as a do-er up for €135,000.) Now, what are the prospects for river-aspected No 6, a hundred metres upriver on No 1, simply but smartly and presented yet certain likely to be spent further on?
Auctioneer Con Nagle of Global Properties stresses “breathtaking river views and landscaped gardens,” and adds that a large side garden (where there’s a detached garage hovering, in wait) “also offers a rare opportunity for development.”
For many, that garden size will indeed be the key to the home’s appeal, and future additional prospects, as it’s the largest by a long shot of the half dozen homes making up Kelleher’s Villas, comprising a pair of bungalows (Nos 1 & 2) and two pairs of two-storey three-bed semis, Nos 3-6.
No 6 has a wedge shaped site, so is both wider and deeper than its neighbours and thus considerably larger, while a portion also has a stream running through, feeding into the Lee from the hillside above, with the Coolyduff townland going back up the hill in a block and including good dairy land.
No 6’s vendor says Kelleher’s Villas got its name from local mills associated with a family of that name and who’d built small homes here from employees; he'd bought it over ten years ago in a derelict state, did a refurb, and it has been rented out of late.
A BER is awaited, but given the front has original/older style but attractive single glazed windows (maybe fit secondary glazing inside them?), and walls are stone, it’s likely to be low.
Global Properties have already notched up over 30 requests for viewings at No 6. The first few were held mid-week, with a flurry yet to come, while being mindful of hordes of car-borne arrivals on what can be a well-traficked road, and the vendor has just cleared back the site to the side to revel its full scope.
The setting is three kilometres from Ballincollig along the Lee’s northern banks between the reinvigorated Anglers Rest bar/Carrigrohane and the Inniscarra bar and the lovely old bridge back to Ballincollig and the heritage powdermills land, now a hugely appreciated public park.
The river aspect is a stunner, on a site which deserves to be (and will be) further enhanced. Mr Nagle says while it feels rural, and rustic, suburbia extends well further to the west across the way in outer Ballincollig, so it’s far from remote.
Internally, there’s a hall, front living room with cast iron fireplace, rear kitchen/diner with modern units and replacement double glazing, and three bedrooms upstairs, plus clean bathroom, with presentation for sale showing a home that has already shone up a bit from what it was when last sold.
VERDICT: Some setting, worth spending more on, and place aplenty for extending to the side and to the south, toward the river. Might another house, or a work or guest cabin, turn up here too in some future years?
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