All systems go on  Glanmire's housing front

Crawford Manor house sale kicks off Sherry FitzGerald's new Glanmire office in advance of major developments including at Dunkettle

File image: the overall lands of Glanmire's Dunkettle House and Ballinglanna lands (now developed).

Glanmire, Cork City
€545,000
Size	140 sq m (1,500 sq ft)
Bedrooms	4
Bathrooms	3
BER	A3

CORK’S Glanmire is on a growth curve for sure, its population heading north of 10,000, with a whole new surge of home building set to carry it on for the next decade and more as the greater Cork area is earmarked for significant development: The National Planning Framework forecasts growth of up to 50% in wider city catchment in the next 15 years.

No 11 Crawford Manor, Glanmire is ready to go. Sherry FitzGerald guide at €545,000 via their new Glanmire offices

Cork ‘city’ itself grew considerably after the expansion of the city boundary back in 2019, with the likes of former satellite towns such as Tower/Blarney, Ballincollig, and Glanmire brought into the city fold, enabling more joined-up thinking and planning for infrastructure and housing. Each location will continue to surge population- wise, as an outer city balance to housing targets in central south and north docks.

Each of those outlying area has had access routes improved with further public transport initiatives and cycle routes enhanced too — in Glanmire’s case, with the ongoing East Cork Greenway trundling along — as well as a massive spend in the Dunkettle interchange ‘spaghetti junction’ (albeit with very mixed results) which freed up the grounds of Dunkathel House for residential development after a 20-year hiatus, after the O’Flynn Group bought the period home on 146 acres back in 2003 for a reported €24m.

Dunkathel or (Dunkettle)House will form the centre of a 1,000+ new homes development with O'Flynn Group over coming years

It’s been a long time coming to fruition, but planning has now been granted for 550 homes, a mix of 394 houses and 156 apartments with the O’Flynn Group and Sherry FitzGerald currently fine-tuning the launch plans and releases, locally relevant names of sections etc.

Overall, the Dunkathel lands may see over 1,000 homes when complete in a number of years time.

With an eye to that long-term scheme, likely to have a 10-year window at least — O’Flynn’s c 800+ unit Mount Oval went on for longer — auctioneers Sherry FitzGerald have this week opened a dedicated estate agency office in Glanmire, due a formal launch next week.

Rear of No 11 Crawford Manor

It’s going to be a second office for them in the enlarged Cork City (they had one across the city, in Ballincollig for a period back in the 2000s) and will handle all sorts of property matters, sales and lettings etc.

Here’s a new Glanmire sales listing, ready to walk into, to get them started.

New to market is No 11 Crawford Manor, a c 130 sq m/1,400 sq ft four-bed semi-d, family owned, and listed by Paul Fenton of Sherry FitzGerald with a €545,000 AMV.

He says it’s in immaculate order, with an attractive back garden too.

Good to grow

It’s part of the later Crawford Woods development of some 80 homes — a mix of three-, four-, and five-beds, across semi-ds and detacheds — done since the 2000s by Murnane & O’Shea, just off Church Hill in central Glanmire and which continues to get a price premium.

The Price Register shows over 100 Crawford Woods transactions, new and second-hand. Of that number, just over 20 have topped €500,000, most of them detacheds. Strongest prices to date were €645,000 for No 4 Crawford Woods (2022), and €800,000 for 2 The Manor. Most Crawford Manor sales shown predate 2020 so neighbours will be watching this semi-d’s sales progress with vested interests.

With a part-limestone façade, 11 Crawford Manor has a front reception room with stove and bay window looking towards the mature hillside greenery at the Vienna Woods Hotel grounds.

 It has a bright hall with understairs storage, kitchen/dining with family room in a rear section under a zinc roof, with quartz worktops, utility, and guest WC. Above are a single and three double bedrooms, one with en suite, plus family bathroom.

VERDICT: Smart order, walk-in family home for traders up, or better-heeled first-time buyers in a very popular mid-size Glanmire development.