![]() Michael O’Donovan snr died after an accident a year ago while on holiday in Spain, and his son, Ed, subsequently took over the Midleton office of the family-owned firm. Their father was second generation Michael O’Donovan Snr, who set up four franchise agencies under the Sherry FitzGerald O’Donovan name, in Mallow, Fermoy, Midleton and Carrigaline. Co-owner Jean O’Donovan - who runs her own property and lettings business, Trading Places - is sister to SFO’D auctioneer Edward, and they are third generation in the auctioneering business. The dual auctioneer pairing may well be obvious to those in the property business in and around Cork. The B1-rated five-bed home is freshly listed with agent Ed O’Donovan of Sherry FitzGerald O’Donovan in Midleton, jointly with Ann O’Mahony of Sherry FitzGerald’s Cork city office and it’s guided at €1.25m, renewed from top to bottom, including a new roof, and wrap-around insulation. ![]() First up, the sale of Randall House, which became the couple’s own family home, up to now at least. The roughly half an acre site for that big one-off has now been cleared, but construction has yet to start. It’ll be a super-sized one of 597sq m or some 6,300sq ft, to a design by West Cork based architect, Geraldine Coughlan. It no longer bears any resemblance to the previous incarnation, clearly enough, and while the house, Mark III, itself is bigger now at over 2,400 sq ft after its porch and sun room were added, its grounds have shrunk, as the buyers got planning permission for a further, brand new, one-off home just on its Douglas village side. They did the upmarket townhouse scheme Mulberry, a development of five tall, ‘London-style’ townhouses on the Curraheen Road which, coincidentally came to market in December 2018, the same month as the last version of ‘Randall’ also went for sale, and which caught their eye. The Price Register shows it selling for €750,000, and the purchasers were, it transpires, Jean O’Donovan and Daniel Finnegan of Better Built Homes, a couple who’ve combined construction and interior design skills on several fronts, in and around their native Mallow, and increasingly in the city and surrounds. The previous version of Randall was a 2,200 sq ft four-bed, red-brick home which was built in the ‘80s, replacing an earlier 1900s family home of the same name on mature grounds running down towards Douglas Estuary, entered 200m from the roundabout pivot of the Well Road and Woodview.īack in December 2018, the last version of Randall (Mark II?) was guided at €950,000.
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