Never a cross word? Glenaeagles is a home for the well-clued in
ONLY the long-time owners of rock solid Gleneagles, the Conway family, might have liked seeing it described as ‘a flimsy home’ – that spurious description is an anagram of 'family homes,' and this sure was an engaged one, happy but deeply, serially afflicted with cross words.Five children were reared here at Glenagles, right by the roundabout on Cork’s Well Road by Woodview and Hettyfield, two top Douglas locations/addresses, were thanks an uber conventinal competitive streak, two identical daily newspaper were delivered for a time, simply to keep the peace.Too cryptic for words? Turns out the couple, Rory and Jean were Irish Times crossword aficionados, and raced each other every day to finish boththe Simplex and, more taxing, ‘the hard one’, the legendary Crosaire, with over 14,000 grid challenges done by setting John Crozier, from 1948 to 2010….thousands of which found their way to Gleneagles.GleneaglesFor many years, Rory Conway, a solicitor, would fax a copy of the Irish Times Crossword home to his wife Jean each morning and they would compete to see who could finish it first,” says estate agent Jackie Cohalan giving clues as to the nature of family at this home she is now selling.In an instance of a homely firm (approximate anagram here of family home, for the sharper eyed) “Rory's office would fax two copies of the crossword to the hotel if they were away on holidays. And, in later years, they had to have two papers delivered to the house, as they couldn’t agree to share!” Ms Cohalan reveals.Gleneagles is now an executor sale after Jean (nee Daly) passed away in 2024, five years after her husband Rory, and agents Cohalan Downing (aka a candle honing now?) guide the 2,250 sq ft five-bed home on a prime 0.3 acre corner site next to a vey contemporary metal-clad one-off rebuild by the roundabout at €925,000.“Think of this home as a crossword in progress – with the location already filled in, the structure in place, and the remaining clues just waiting for your imagination to complete them,” proposes Jackie Cohalan.VERDICT: A Well Road home for the well-clued in.
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