Manna from ...a boreen? Make yourself at home at Cork city's €425k Flora View on Boreenmanna Road

EASY walking distance to Cork city centre, and a right of way to rear access with parking plus a long sliver of garden, are some of the attractions of the fragrantly-titled 11 Flora View at the city end of Cork’s Boreenmanna Road.

The mid-terrace three-bed home built in about the early 1900s, has been privately owned for a number of years by a family who later moved to the nearby Victoria Road, and rented this, their former home, in the interim, most recently to a medic and family, says selling agent Richie Dunlea of Barry Auctioneers now selling on their behalf and citing a €425,000 AMV.

That’s for a well-presented 903 sq ft/87 sq m three-storey home, with top-floor bedroom and bathroom, two mid-level bedrooms, one of them full-width to the front (it faces the 1960s low-slung Ford Cork HQ building at Elm Court across the road), and at ground is a front living room, rear kitchen, and WC/utility.

On the market since late autumn, it’s had some early viewings, mostly from younger buyers who want to be close to the city centre. It’s currently under offer at €390,000, says Mr Dunlea, who adds that even though the BER’s a F, “it doesn’t feel in any way cold” — possibly due to the fact it has neighbouring properties on either side, and so has few external walls in all.

It has oil central heating, double glazing, and compact front dormer window. A number of neighbours on the terrace have installed larger box dormers for better head height, whilst a number of neighbouring homes are adding extensions both on the terrace and behind at Carrigeen Park where the rear access point is.

The Price Register shows the most recent sale at Flora View being No 17, making €417,500 by the start of 2025, and before that the last recorded sale was of No 15 for €353,000.

Nearby, the former Rockboro private school just below Boreenmanna Road by the junction with the N40 link to the city centre by the Elysian sold in May 2025 for €2m, with a planning application expected for residential development:

It has been offered for rent as offices for a three-year period pending redevelopment.

Nearby is the South Infirmary Victoria hospital on the Old Blackrock Road, as is St Finbarr’s Hospital on Douglas Road.

VERDICT: Good nick, great location.