Central perks on Cork's Magazine Road for €495,000

No 15 Lisieux Park, an upgraded three-bed semi-detached home offers walk-in condition near UCC and CUH.

15 Lisieux Park, Cork.

Magazine Road, Cork City
€495,000
Size	99 sq m (1,060 sq ft)
Bedrooms	3
Bathrooms	1
BER	C2

NEW Year, same old faces?

The selling agent of the upgraded No 15 Lisieux Park off Cork city’s Magazine Road can expect to renew some 2025 acquaintances and see familiar-looking home hunters at this January listing — he had the house across the road for sale six months ago, and it’s gone now.

Selling the dormer-style No 15 Lisieux Park is Johnny O‘Flynn of Sherry FitzGerald. He guides at €495,000: That comes on the back of the completed sale of No 12, which got listed back in June 2025 at €395,000, and proved so popular it went well over its AMV, selling in the heel of the hunt for €480,000, closing just before Christmas.

Nos 12 and 15 face each other across a green section in the cul de sac residential enclave off Magazine Road, and near Glasheen boys’ and girls’ national schools.

Also close are UCC and the CUH complex, between them employing many thousands in secure, pensionable and mortgage-friendly jobs.

It’s likely that both the educational and medical spheres will steer inquiries to No 15 Lisieux Park as those major centres are within an easy walk of this semi-detached home which, notably, is in walk-in condition, ready for the next owners to simply move in personal possessions and do a bit of furniture sale shopping for their own stamp of personality.

According to Mr O’Flynn, his previous listing here was dominated by first-time buyer couples and traders down, with a strong draw due to CUH and UCC proximity.

No 15 last changed hands in 2018, sold eight years ago for €285,000, according to the Price Register, and was bought by a woman now living overseas and who took on upgrades piecemeal over the next few years. She made changes up to about 2022, says Mr O’Flynn, so that now it’s a C2 BER, with exterior wrap insulation, with increased attic insulation, new glazing and external doors, as well as a new gas combi boiler for central heating.

Its rear garden got a landscaping makeover too, and is deliberately low maintenance with gravel and paving, with good screening for privacy, while there’s parking for several cars on the side drive of this left-hand side semi-d. The front garden is neat, with low-lying shrubs and heathers.

Its facing neighbour, No 12, was a right-hand-set semi-d, with an E1 BER and had a similar floor area to No 15, about 99sq m or 1,060 sq ft, with one compact ground-floor bedroom and two more overhead, under sloping dormer ceilings.

No 12 (which had been an executor sale) had fitted in a first-floor en suite shower room, so perhaps No 15’s new owners might look to do similar at some future stage?

Right now, No 15 has its sole bathroom downstairs, fully tiled, with pressurised shower over a bath.

Other rooms entered off the side/gable of No 15 include a small third bedroom, a larger front living room with scope to reopen the fireplace, and a dining room with a wood-burning stove set into a splayed corner. This opens to a modern galley-style kitchen, measuring approximately 10’ by 15’, with sleek units, metro tiling and access to the rear/side garden.

Up a carpeted stairs are two double bedrooms, one with a box dormer-style window, the other has its window on the gable with distant views towards Sundays Well.

Prior to No 12 selling late in 2025, the last previous sale at Lisieux Park was No 22 which made €395,000. Before that the only other sale above €300,000 was the €309,000 paid for No 8, aka St Theresa’s, a reminder perhaps of the probable naming link of this park, after the
popular 19th century French Carmelite nun, St Therese of
Lisieux.

VERDICT: At its €495,000 AMV, No 15 Lisieux Park, with a C2 BER, comes on the back of the €480,000 paid for No 12, which had a bigger garden and more open-plan rear layout. While No 12 was in very good order, its E1 BER was more reflective of its 1950s–60s construction.

Next owners can decide whether to add a first-floor en suite to one of the upstairs
bedrooms and/or switch the front rooms so that the ground-floor bedroom is bigger, and use the smaller room alongside as a TV room or work-from-home study.