Residential

Harold’s Cross period villa with planning for extension on the market for €785k

The three-bedroom residence comprises 78 square metres, and has active planning permission for a two-storey rear extension

275 Harold’s Cross Road, an attractive split-level redbrick villa currently on the market with Ron Cregan of Colliers guiding €785,000. Picture: Viv van der Holst

Harold’s Cross is said to have been so named on account of it being the site on which a cross stood marking the boundary of land owned by the Archbishop of Dublin, the cross designed to warn off ‘the Harolds’, or wild guardians of the Pale near Whitechurch.

Another, less pleasant, account suggests the name is derived from the fact that the grounds currently at Harold’s Cross Park were used as an execution ground from ...