€850k Coast Road home elevated by its gorgeous views

Specific siting of dormer bungalow elevated over Cork Harbour adds value to Ivernia

Ivernia, Coast Road,

Myrtleville, Co Cork
€850,000
Size	162sq m (1,744sq ft)
Bedrooms	4
Bathrooms	3
BER	C3

Impeccable timing greeted the sale arrival of stunningly-set Ivernia to the open market — the private home on the Coast Road in Myrtleville launched in the middle of Cork Week, with up to 100 yachts in full sail race mode in its panoramic view, as well as a cruise liner and two tankers anchored here, off the mouth of Cork Harbour.

“There were boats everywhere today on a viewing, to a Dublin couple, it was spectacular,” said estate agent Michael Pigott on Tuesday.

“I think Ivernia must have one of the very best views on the Coast Road: you look over the beach at Myrtleville, out east to Roches Point across the harbour and, the other way, right around back west to Ringabella past Fountainstown,” Mr Pigott added of the special setting of this elevated setting bungalow, perfectly positioned for sun ups, and sun downers.

A slice of the yacht flotilla pushes out beyond Cork Harbour, part of the busy fleet racing during day one of Cork Week 2026. Picture: David Creedon

Both very well kept and very well sited on c 0.25 of an acre, and set just above the deep bathing pool at Poulgorm on the uphill side of the Coast Road, Ivernia is now a probate sale and Mr Pigott guides the 1,744sq ft four-bed home at €850,000, noting it is one of two houses with the same, identical name. The same agent also sold the other Ivernia, back in 2021, to a Dublin-based buyer, for €825,000.

Guide prince for this Ivernia is marginally higher, at €850,000, and coincidentally, his Tuesday viewing this week with the panoply of sails filling the view was, again, to a Dublin-based party. However, there’s going to be other local and overseas interest too to follow, as he has a dozen or more requests logged already in his first week of viewings.

Ivernia has a flexible floor plan, with two bedrooms apiece on each of its two levels and with living areas also on both, with side access to a deck at ground, and the upper level has two balconies, one in a side gable, the other in the broader front gable with plenty of decked space to sit out with a table and a few chairs or a telescope.

Mr Pigott says internally it’s “bathed in natural light” with several double aspect rooms too. It has been extended to the back for a sun room off the kitchen with views over a stepped, well-landscaped rear garden.

A few minutes walk from the beach, Ivernia shares its drive up from the Myrtleville end of the Coast Road with a handful of other detached houses (one being extensively renovated). Directly in front of it/under it, by the path down to Poulgorm, is one of the road’s more distinctive builds, a contemporary design with green, pre-patinated metal sheeting set at an angle, like fish or animal scales.

Given the increasing number of €1m-plus homes on this coastline section west of Cork’s harbour mouth (four alone on the Coast Rd — Medjez-El-Bab at nearly €1.8m in 2022), might Ivernia’s next owners do something quite dramatic here?

VERDICT: A very good dormer bungalow elevated to a far higher value by virtue of its very specific siting.