House of the Week: €1.35m Randall on Cork's Well Road

This four-bed house on 0.2 acres can be bought fully furnished

Randall, Well Road. Pictures: John Roche

Well Road, Douglas, Cork
€1.35 million
Size	213 sq m  (2,275 sq ft)
Bedrooms	4
Bathrooms	3
BER	B1

Well, well, well, the Well Road’s Randall is back for sale, as good as ever, only with a very swanky next door neighbour — a brand new, c 6,300 sq ft whopper. Would you be well?

“People joke I’ll be getting viewings here only so people can have a look over the wall,” says estate agent Michael McKenna of his launch of this 2,275 sq ft four-bed detached with a strong link to the biggie next door, likely one of the very best new homes in and around Cork city of recent years.

The 1980s-era Randall (which itself had replaced an earlier, mid 1900s build) was bought and overhauled stem to stern by a young family, property experts Jean O’Donovan of letting agency Trading Places and Daniel Finnegan of Better Built Homes, getting it to B1, better than new status, later selling it on.

They didn’t go far. They split the c0.75 acre site, kept Randall on a decent 0.2 acre and then set about building a French-style modern mansion of 6,300 sq ft on an even more generous 0.5 acres, to a design by West Cork architect Geraldine Coughlan.

Picture: Larry Cummins

The couple got €1.195 million for Randall in 2024, just under its €1.25 m AMV, and was bought as a trade-down home by a woman then living in the western suburbs, who was set to move to be close to adult family.

The move never happened despite the attractions of the purchase (it was bought fully furnished too) and now, it’s back on the market some two years on, as an executor sale. Mr McKenna guides it at €1.35 million, a sort of price level very much in tune with the Well Road/Douglas locale.

The Price Register shows the sale over the wall on the other side of Randall of several recently-built detacheds in a niche scheme called Greenbanks, with five detacheds developed on a 1.1 acre site once linked to blues legend Rory Gallagher’s mother Monica.

No 4 Greenbanks fetched €1.47m in 2022, No 3 fetched €1.5 million in 2024, and in 2025 No 1 Greenbanks was offered with a €1.65m AMV…complete with champagne chilling sink.

Since then, the ante got upped even higher on the Well Road in terms of asking prices. A period home, the immaculately-restored 230 year old Ravenscourt overlooking the Mahon estuary and golf course, came for sale just over a year ago seeking €4 million for its c 6,300 sq ft, but has since been taken off the market.

Meanwhile, a 1920s Well Road Edwardian beauty called Kendalsbrae, a 3,000 sq ft on 2.25 uber-private acres closer to the Douglas Road/Woodview came for sale also in 2025, guiding €2.95m and is understood to be inching towards a sale, likely to a private buyer. Randall’s buyer could come from near or far, expects auctioneer Michael McKenna, with a huge bonus being its walk-in/as-new condition and can be bought fully furnished, a boon especially for families coming back from overseas, or corporates.

Work done by Better Built Homes includes external insulation, new windows from Munster Joinery, all new plumbing, full rewiring, coved ceilings by Capital Mouldings, new roof and, out the back, a glass box-style sun room, about 15’ square, off the dining room, with easy links to the kitchen with white quartz tops, and to a well decked-out utility room with masses of units and AEG appliances.

Picture Larry Cummins

Across a side-entered hall via porch, is a large double aspect living room via sliding pocket doors, with a wide inset wood-burning stove, while a back hall leads to a floor bedroom next to a bathroom, with a family room alongside or larger optional ground floor bedroom.

Above, is a landing with glass balusters, main bathroom serving two bedrooms, plus a main bedroom suite with extensive walk-in robes and private bathroom with both bath and shower. Décor is neutral/showhouse standard, with lots of wall paneling, fully tiled bathrooms have white sanitary ware with black taps/showers, flooring is engineered boards at ground and carpets overhead, with Stira access to a carpeted attic for storage.

Externally little expense was spared inside the 0.2 acre walled grounds, past electric gates (the footpath outside has been widened, making access a breeze) with swathes of limestone paving and patios, there’s a chipped drive for car parking and lawns and perimeter planting by Abbey Landscaping.

V ERDICT: A top-quality Well Road option for the well-off, but, please, don’t try to keep up with ‘the Joneses’ next door…