Grants for two huge €400k+ derelict houses on Cork's Blackrock Road - and you'll need every penny

Buying will be the cheapest part of the spend at  1 & 2 Ashton Place. Developers are to sell on Victorian-era houses in city which have lain idle for decades: they aim to build high-end apartments  to the rear

Nos 1 & 2 Ashton Place are at the city end of Cork's Blackrock Road near the school. Agent Jackie Cohaln say you'll get €70,000 toward the cost of each to conserve and make habitable once more

IMPRESSIVE buildings that have remained idle for decades on the city end of Cork’s Blackrock Road have been put up for sale by a company, Dwellings Development Blackrock Road Ltd. The buildings are near the SMA religious order’s Feltrim House, also close to a sale.

Work - lots of it -  needed at Nos 1 and 2: separate private buyers are being sought