{"id":153323,"date":"2025-10-30T12:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/153323\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:49:08","slug":"three-fools-cafes-leases-warehouse-for-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/153323\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Fools cafes leases warehouse for growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORK is known nationwide and further afield for a certain major tea brand, Barry\u2019s which was founded in 1901 \u2013 but, coming up on the outside is a perky ring of coffee roasters who also source their wares from growers around the world and give them a local Cork accent.<\/p>\n<p>A local specialist coffee brand with three outlets to date &#8211; and with two pop-ups planned for the Christmas period &#8211; has just marked its tenth anniversary with the lease of a 700 sq m (7,560 sq ft) warehouse for its storage and coffee bean roasting needs: it has joined a clutch of others such as Cork Coffee Roasters, Velo, Mahers, SOMA as well as West Cork Coffee and Stone Valley amongst other roasters operating locally.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4839375_6_articleinlinemobile_Unit_2021_20Southside_20Industrial_20Estate_1_.jpg\" alt=\"Bean counter: deal done on 700 sq m Unit 21 in city's Southside Ind Estate at \u20ac70,000 pa via Cohalan Downing's Ed Hanafin\" title=\"Bean counter: deal done on 700 sq m Unit 21 in city's Southside Ind Estate at \u20ac70,000 pa via Cohalan Downing's Ed Hanafin\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Bean counter: deal done on 700 sq m Unit 21 in city&#8217;s Southside Ind Estate at \u20ac70,000 pa via Cohalan Downing&#8217;s Ed Hanafin<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Coffee house Three Fools \u2013 founded by Gary McKeating and Kevin Foley &#8211; which has outlets on Cork city\u2019s Grand Parade in a glass pod, as well as in suburban Douglas Court and in Carrigaline at Millstream Lane off Main Street which opened in 2022, has just inked a warehouse lease for c \u20ac70,000 per annum.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4839378_6_articleinlinemobile_FbaP5ymWAAA5Y8L.jpeg\" alt=\"Orlando Bloom enjoying Three Fools Coffee in Cork city. Picture: Ronan Murphy\" title=\"Orlando Bloom enjoying Three Fools Coffee in Cork city. Picture: Ronan Murphy\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Orlando Bloom enjoying Three Fools Coffee in Cork city. Picture: Ronan Murphy<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">To support the growth and bean roasting business (its products mix sell in well-branded readily identifiable packaging) the 2015-founded company Three Fools Coffee ltd has secured the 700 sq m\u00a0 Unit 21 at the city\u2019s Southside Industrial Estate near Pouladuff Road and Forge Hill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Three Fools is already located nearby in a smaller unit, initially 140 sq m, later doubled in size to a combined 280 sq m, said co-founder Gary McKeating, adding the company now employs 30, including in its wholesale\u00a0 operation and via a related company linking it to international roasters which it acquired recently, beans.ie.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4839381_6_articleinlinemobile_The_20evolution_20of_20the_20Fools_20Kevin_20Foley_20on_20the_20left_2.jpeg\" alt=\"Co-founders Kevin Foley, left and Gary McKeating,\u00a0 right\" title=\"Co-founders Kevin Foley, left and Gary McKeating,\u00a0 right\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Co-founders Kevin Foley, left and Gary McKeating,\u00a0 right<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Also near the South Ring Road\/N40 and N27 Kinsale Road, the premises was put up to let in summer via Edward Hanafin of Cohalan Downing and has a two storey office\/ service block with 1,473 sq ft on each of the floors plus 4,580 sq ft in the warehouse section for storage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">According to Mr Hanafin, \u201cthere is very limited availability of warehouse\/ commercial units particularly on the southside of the city and there was good interest.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Neighbouring occupiers around Southside Industrial are Premier Auto Parts, EZ Living Furniture, Nat Ross, Sam Dennigan &amp; Co and Douglas Gymnastics Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">DETAILS: Cohalan Downing 021-4277717.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORK is known nationwide and further afield for a certain major tea brand, Barry\u2019s which was founded in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,56004,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-153323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-commercial-property-munster-to-let","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115463203504865109","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}