{"id":168833,"date":"2025-11-08T00:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T00:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/168833\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T00:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T00:24:12","slug":"family-home-par-excellence-at-e745k-ballygarvan-one-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/168833\/","title":{"rendered":"Family home par excellence at \u20ac745k Ballygarvan one-off"},"content":{"rendered":"

WELL, there sure was demand for serviced sites back in summer 2003 \u2014 the couple who came to view this Ballygarvan setting on a June Bank Holiday Monday were given until the next day to come up with a deposit, as there were hordes behind them also looking to buy.<\/p>\n

\"StonebrookStonebrook aka 38 Gleann Rua<\/p>\n

And, the pressure put on Alex and Elaine O\u2019Regan to pony up wasn\u2019t fabricated: the selling agent came back to them a day or two after they paid up to say they\u2019ve be given back an extra \u20ac10,000 to not sign the contact as another person really, really, really wanted it too.<\/p>\n

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They stuck to their guns at Stonebrook, glad ever since that they did, getting planning on their third attempt for this one-off within a very successful 2000s Bride View Developments\u2019 Gleann Rua.<\/p>\n

They\u2019d wanted a stone exterior feature and eventually got it, in a full height window bay, going on to build via direct labour, with child No 2, Cillian, arriving just as the work finished, joining sister Ellen who was a site-visiting toddler during the patient build from the O\u2019Regan\u2019s first home in Ballea Carrigaline.<\/p>\n

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Where does time go? The \u2018youngsters\u2019 are now in their twenties, one post-college and just joined the work force, the other\u2019s in year three training to be an electrician. Parents Elaine and Alex haven\u2019t sat around either: inveterate house improvers, they\u2019ve a steady stream of extra, \u2018above and beyond\u2019 works done ever since to bring it Stonebrook aka 38 Gleann Rua to this current standard.<\/p>\n

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Now that it\u2019s updated on just about every front, internally and externally, they are looking to move back towards Cork city\u2019s suburbs for their next \u2018nest-emptying\u2019 life chapter, with energy to spare whilst admitting they\u2019ll really miss the community that grew around them, and where their family was reared, schooled and engaged in sports.<\/p>\n

Selling Stonebrook\/No 38 in city-adjacent Ballygarvan is agent Jeremy Murphy, who says he was almost stopped in his tracks once he arrived for a first impression: he\u2019s now listed it at \u20ac745,000 and that\u2019s for a walk-in order, constantly enhanced 2,360 sq ft four bed detached home with two attic level rooms with excellent permanent stair access. It\u2019s complete with a just re-landscaped back garden complete with quality build home office\/garden room\/bar and games room ready to lead the home owners up the garden path.<\/p>\n

\"RaiseRaise the bar at Stonebrook<\/p>\n

Jeremy Murphy\u2019s sales listing gives dates of the more recent works carried out here (the vendors have two bulging folders of details, receipts etc!) The stone patio and landscaping came in 2022, the same year as the garden room\/bar, which is fully insulated, externally clad and on a concrete base.<\/p>\n

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Internally a smart home Hive heating system came in 2020, the same year the kitchen was retiled, preceded by the wood-burning stove in the living room in 2015, with a relined flue following in 2024.<\/p>\n

The ash kitchen has b<\/p>\n

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een professionally repainted, while the oak stairs got a new carpet in 2022, with new blinds throughout coming in \u201923 \u201cgiving a fresh, uniform look to every room.\u201d Utility and guest WC were tacked on in 2020, and the main bedroom\u2019s en suite (one of two) was redone as recently as 2025.<\/p>\n

Anyone else out there feeling lazy by comparison?<\/p>\n

Wait on: the B2 rated adaptable home with its Kealkil stone flanked bays and those up-top attic room extras also has an EV charging point, app controlled CCTV, full alarm, a Solarman app-controlled eight-panel PV solar system and a new front door, controlled by hand and key for older folk\u2019s peace of mind.<\/p>\n

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Rooms wise, as well as the stove-warmed living room with bay window, another reception room, an oak-floored lounge, has a sunken floor area and high ceilings; there\u2019s the upgraded kitchen with granite tops and hand- painted units; a sun room is off, and upstairs the main en suite bedroom has a bay with three windows.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s probably no surprise to hear Elaine and Alex are fans of TV home makeover shows: Elaine says it\u2019s in her blood as her own mother \u201chas had more kitchens fitted than most people ever have had homes, and my sisters are the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Auctioneer Jeremy Murphy says he expects local trade-up and trade-in interest from around Ballygarvan and Carrigaline, adding that Gleann Rua\u2019s Stonebrook has that rare balance of detached one-off home by a family-friendly development, in a village setting with services, GAA club and school all within a few minutes\u2019 walk of the new (well, 2020) front door.<\/p>\n

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Close to hand is Cork Airport and Business Park, there\u2019s a bus service (the 225), the city\u2019s four miles away and roads passing lead towards Carrigaline, Kinsale, and on to south and west Cork.<\/p>\n

VERDICT: reluctantly departing co-owner Elaine was a stalwart of the community association and was key in getting traffic calming measures and new signage for Ballygarvan. As new signs were going up, she spotted the old Baile Garbhain\/Ballygarvan sign,\u00a0 heading into a metal recycling skip.<\/p>\n

\"GardenGarden joys at Stonebrook<\/p>\n

She saved it, planted it in the garden\u2019s perimeter landscaping, cherished it….but, hands-off, it\u2019s going to town with the O\u2019Regans when they move. To the vendors go the spoils\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WELL, there sure was demand for serviced sites back in summer 2003 \u2014 the couple who came to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,433,19,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-168833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-house-prices-mortgages-estate-agents-cork-munster","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115511234901085258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168833","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=168833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}