Bungalow bliss on a large quarter-acre Douglas site for €625k

A top ‘outer city’ location, a large, 0.27-acre site, and a well-kept, four-bedroomed bungalow with scope to grow: What’s not to like?

Kenilworth Moneygourney, Douglas, Cork

Kenilworth, Moneygourney
€625,000
Size	175sq m (1,875sq ft)
Bedrooms	4
Bathrooms	3
BER	D2

Freshly listed on well-kept grounds that include a sit-out gazebo and a block-built shed is Kenilworth, a c 50-year old single-storey bungalow at Moneygurney, along the Garryduff Rd, opposite the later development Landsborough. In the decades since both have been here, the family life convenience of a bus stop (the 216) has popped up, right by Kenilworth’s set-back entrance (bus stops for the 220, 220X, and the 223 are also pretty close by, too).

This 1,875 sq ft, detached four-bed is part of a tidy cluster of similar-era homes, all one-offs, around a residential triangle by the Moneygurney Rd, and is priced at €625,000 by selling agent Stuart O’Grady, of Sherry FitzGerald.

He says it has been well-maintained by its long-term owners. The next occupiers can move in and make any discretionary changes as they wish, and at their own pace, and he suggests some may, in time, seek to add a box extension or similar.

Kenilworth has four bedrooms left of the central entrance hall, one with en-suite bathroom, and there’s also a family bathroom and guest WC, by the utility.

On the other side is a front living room with white marble and hardwood fireplace, a rear sitting/dining room, and a gable-end kitchen with double aspect and slight window bow to the front. Mr O’Grady adds the grounds of over a quarter acre are private and well kept, with lawns front and back, with farm grazing land to the back and with Garryduff woods views further afield

VERDICT: Built c 1970 and last changing hands in the 1990s, when new-home construction really started to ramp up around Garryduff and Moneygurney, it now looks like family-friendly Kenilworth too is set for a new life chapter.