A house in the centre of an established Cork suburb with more room inside than the front suggests and a west-facing terrace to the rear.
Ballintemple sits on the Blackrock Road between Cork city centre and the River Lee at Blackrock. It has been hauled in by the expanding city over decades but has kept its own village ‘feel’ and centre, with a post office, a few shops and a couple of pubs.
Number 3, a two-bed terraced house in the heart of the village, is now for sale with an asking price of €345,000.
Address: 3 Ballintemple, Blackrock, Cork, T12 HHN8
Asking price: €345,000
Agent: AML Property Services
The former rental property has been tastefully laid out and furnished with some choice 20th-century pieces.
The ground floor is mostly given over to an open-plan living and dining room, which is big enough for a sofa and a dining table.
Behind it is a separate fitted kitchen with double doors opening to a private west-facing terrace that gets sun in the afternoon and evening.
The accommodation totals roughly 90sq m over two floors, with a further 33sq m of storage on the attic level.
Upstairs there are two double bedrooms and a large bathroom with a bath and a separate shower.
Above that, the top floor has two reasonably-sized storage rooms, which is unusual in a house of this kind.
There is gas heating and a D1 energy rating, and parking is on the street only.
That mortgage calculator you see in the corner of your eye when you are looking at property sites probably wouldn’t exist, nor would this website, were it not for one former Ballintemple resident.
George Boole was the mathematician whose work underpins modern computing.
He lived in Ballintemple while professor at Queen’s College Cork, and died there in 1864.
Before the suburbs spread east in the 20th century, the land around the village was given over to market gardens and plant nurseries, and the Cork, Blackrock and Passage railway ran just north of it until 1932.
The actor Cillian Murphy grew up in the area, and the rugby player Simon Zebo is also from the locality.
Small houses in the area sell regularly.
According to the Property Price Register, 8 Beaumont Cottages sold for €375,000 in June and 1 The Cottages, for €445,000 in July, while 35 The Cottages, a one-bed in the village, sold for €205,000 in March.
For many buyers, the appeal is how much is within walking distance.
Páirc Uí Chaoimh and Páirc Uí Rinn are close by, as is Cork Constitution’s rugby ground, so match days bring crowds and traffic.
The Marina and its riverside walks are a short walk away, with Blackrock Castle a bit further along the river.
The city centre, meanwhile, is about 3 km away, but you are relatively well served by the 202 bus route.
AML Property Services is seeking €345,000 for the house.
