Finding Nemo link at end of the line 7 Eldred Terrace

Victorian Cork city was home linked to major development plans for former Nemo Rangers GAA grounds

End terrace 7 Eldred Terrace was owned by the   FCA/Department of Defence for decades before being bought for site assembly. It's now for sale as a one-off guided at €795,000 by agent Niall Cahalane 

Douglas Road Cork City
€795,000
Size	180 sq m (1,925 sq ft)
Bedrooms	4
Bathrooms	3
BER	B2

NO 7 Eldred Terrace, the end of a line on Cork City’s main Douglas Road, has had a chequered past but, now, after a full internal refurb, looks like having a brighter, steadier future.

Dating to the late 1800s, the three-storey late Victorian era home came into the ownership of the Department of Defence in the mid 20th century, when it formed part of a FCA facility for drilling and training volunteers as an auxiliary defence force — the FCA is now folded into the Army Reserve.

Former Nemo Rangers GAA lands between the two Douglas roads with Eldred Terrace top right

Later, coming to the height of the boom, No 7 was bought by Fleming Construction as part of a major land assembly by Fleming Construction that included a c €7m deal with GAA club Nemo Rangers, which had pitches behind Eldred Terrace, between the main and south Douglas Roads and Cross Douglas Road. Nemo relocated to elaborate new facilities at Trabeg, Douglas, in 2007.

Plans were drawn up by Fleming Construction for a major residential scheme of several hundred homes to be accessed here off the main Douglas Road (but a plan to demolish mid-terraced houses by Bellair Estate junction for access came to naught) and Fleming’s former Nemo site sold for €2.85m in 2013, along with 7 Eldred Terrace, to a company Dildar linked to developer Paul Kenny.

Eldred Terrace

The Price Register shows No 7 Eldred Terrace selling in 2013 for €150,000. It would have been in a raw condition then, and for much of the following decade, until getting a major overhaul, and modest rear extension, within the past year.

The Nemo/Fleming/Dildar site behind had planning applied for and granted over 200 units, mainly apartments, with the last application due a decision by 2023 and the site’s ownership also become involved in a legal issue in 2024, with some site activity visible on it currently.

Meanwhile, 7 Eldred Terrace appears ready to cut ties with its rather complicated recent past and property market ups and downs, having come for sale with a price guide of €795,000 in an ‘as-new’ condition, with a B2 BER, and is already over that in offers with estate agent Niall Cahalane of Cahalane Skuse who says his vendor is a company.

Rear view No 7

No 4 Eldred Terrace is the only recent previous sale showing on the Price Register since 2010, and it sold in 2021 for a recorded €335,000, above the €315,000 AMV it had carried as an older-style, F-BER rated 1,770 sq ft three-storey with rear access.

No 7 is shiny new in looks and feel inside, with slight rear kitchen/family living extension. It has four bedrooms, two per upper floor with one en suite and each level has a bathroom. It’s in ready to furnish condition, with flooring, bathrooms, tiling, built-ins and kitchen all in situ.

It has an enclosed front garden with original cast iron rails which form an important feature of the row of seven houses at Eldred Terrace, which goes east back to the Cross Douglas Road junction.

It has a side entrance to a set-back area used by residents for car parking, with a separate gate access to the compact enclosed rear garden and patio by where future new development on the Nemo lands may come in time. Auctioneer Niall Cahalane says No 7 has two reserved car parking spaces.

VERDICT: No 7 is now end of the line, in more ways than one.