Blackrock Road, Cork City €2.5 million Size 453 sq m (4,857 sq ft) Bedrooms 5 Bathrooms 4 BER B2 THE late 1800s was a sort of Golden Era for Cork city’s Blackrock Road: many of its finest homes, villas, mansions and terraces came to fill in the gaps between even older beauties, heading east from the old city. The newbies of the time slotted in between the ancients like the original 16th century Blackrock Castle and Dundanion Castle, and then the more latter day arrivals of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries (the 18th century was another golden era for the likes of Chiplee, Ringmahon House and especially Blackrock House.
The latter, dating to the 1700s, and known to many as the ex Ursuline Convent (and, once called Pleasantville) is where a luxe apartment launched at c €1.2m at the start of this summer is just recently ‘sale agreed’. In this century, the 21st (come on, keep up!) the Blackrock Road from Victoria Road to Blackrock village and past to the Castle Road has seen some of the city’s strongest home sale records and consistently high demand.
The Price Register shows an incredible 30 resales since 2010 at or over €1 million and even more, some 47 €1m+sales, with ‘just’ Blackrock in the address. The Register also shows six sales at or over €2 million (two are bulks sales) and so four at €2m plus to date. The most recent was the fully restored and contemporised Riverside on Castle Road, at €2.
1m, and the largest is a listing called Avoka, in 2017 s.