Boldly designed €945k Glanmire home is carefully mapped out

Irish Examiner

2 days ago

HOMES at Woodville, above Cork's Glanmire, are ageing gracefully, as is the overall development itself, not least thanks to the many retained mature trees and overall 'green' airiness of the hillside scheme.
No 7 The Avenue, Woodville
Dating to the mid-2000s, Woodville was successful development on up to ten acres around the period Woodville House, just over the brow of a hill from the large Dunkathel House and estate lands at Dunkettle.
While Dunkathel took the best part of 20 years to get cleared for development (works started this year after an April 2025 grant of planning for 550 units after infrastructure/interchange upgrades, developers Rossdale got Woodville off the ground in the early to mid 200s, with a mix of apartments, townhouses, semi-ds and large detacheds, as well as conversion of the period house itself to four spacious apartment, with crisp, contemporary design and master-planning by Wilson Architects.
Included in the mix was a number of quite large detacheds of 2,500 sq ft to nearly 3,000 sq ft in a section called The Courtyard, generally on decent sites by mature hardwoods, some offered for sale at €1m+ prices at the time.
No 7 The Avenue, Woodville
Few of the real whoppers have come for resale since, but a handful with an Avenue Woodville address have sold in the past decade, at prices from just under €500k to nearly €600k.
Now, one of the bigger beasts is on the open Market: Almanzel, aka No 7 The Avenue Woodville is listed with a €945,000 AMV by agent Paul Fenton and Dan Linehan of Sherry FitzGerald, who are due to open a dedicated Sherry FitzGerald office in Glanmire later this summer as the area continues its growth and maturity, and as O'Flynn Group's Dunkettle development also gears up for years of sales ahead.
Almanzel's (the Arabic word means 'the home' is a one-off, finished by its Irish/international family owners back nearly 20 years ago, on very substantial grounds of c 0.47 of an acre, with house itself in two linked sections, part two-storey, the other, below at a T-shape quite low-slung, dropping down in sections on a sloping site with expansive views over Glanmire's wooded valley and Glashaboy river beneath, with distant views to the hill above Cork city and Mayfield's playing pitches almost 'up in the gods.'
The distinctive design sees the house link to a garage/store across a wide covered carport area, and inside the first sight to greet visitors is a compass motif with the four North, South, East and West cardinal points outlined on the tiled floor in the double height, stepped hall/landing.
There are up to five bedrooms (none particularly large, however, and all with built-ins,) spread over two floors, and one's en suite, plus there's a generous home office/study space off on the uppermost level which also has two of the bedrooms, including the main en suite one.
There's a very substantial triple aspect open plan dining/family/kitchen main heart of the house, bright, with corner window and opening to vast external deck, with a kitchen in oak with large black granite topped island, with a small utility as back-up behind, by a side passage leading to the family reception rooms, an all-weather space as it has both a gas fire and an air conditioning unit.
The 2,060 sq ft C1-rated build is well-kept inside, with the external finishes a mix of white render and cedar, and it's ready to move into an personalise to its next owners' wishes.
VERDICT: Spacious home on a very big, secure private and wooded site within well-rooted Woodville.