Selling Blackberry Lane By The Field Pt 9

Another one bites the money lust…?

t’s incredible to think that, jumping back just forty years, there were only about twelve houses on the half-mile stretch of Blackberry Lane in Delgany.

And only three of them had an upstairs, don’t cha know.

Today, there are somewhere in the region of 4,237 houses on Blackberry Lane. Give or take.

The 2019 plot…

And about 4,233 of those houses would appear to be down to the family of a woman who no longer actually lives there, but, from her quite-possibly gold-plated apartment in Greystones, has slowly but surely been carving up the old farm into an ever-expanding quilt of new million-dollar domiciles, field by petrified field.

Having filled one side of Blackberry Lane at the N11 end to near-full capacity – the last plot having gone to market in 2019 for €395,000 – it’s now the turn of the great big field known as Cherrys’ Brow on the other side to have a For Sale nailed to its gate.

There’s gold in that there hill…

Which turned out to be a little unkinder surprise for all their fellow Blackberry Lane residents today.

Our budding property typhoon has previously filed for planning permission on this highly-visible hill summit that overlooks Barry’s Bridge and Glen Of The Downs – a total of four times. Which definitely counts as a slappable offence.

And the little fecker has now decided that since Wicklow Planning has stopped playing powerball, hey, someone else can try. Once they cough up quarter of a million for the pleasure. You can check out the new listing here.

Step by step, field by field, the Glen Of The Downs end of Blackberry Lane is slowly turning into Cherrymun.  

Here’s hoping that whoever buys this latest lump of lotto land grab has enough money and determination to challenge the family the next time they try to sell another plot of gold…