Oodles of va va voom for €1.6m in deluxe Crosshaven home A kid zone, fire pit and bike trails are all in the mix at five-bed Beechville House, a polished family home near Crosshaven village Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 – 16:48 Catherine Shanahan Pictures: Jim Rocks/Media Pro Crosshaven, Cork €1.595m Size 468sq m (5,038sq ft) Bedrooms 5 Bathrooms 5 BER A3 Two framed State of Virginia number plates on the walls of Beechville House hint at the owners’ globetrotting lifestyle. Links to the motor trade have taken them from Cork, to Britain, and to the USA, before doing a handbrake turn back to Cork again in 2021, where they bedded down in Brookwood, above the Crosshaven Rd. Really, you’d hardly know the estate exists: the only giveaway is the pillared entrance on the main road below. You could easily mistake it for someone’s private driveway as homes in this discrete cul-de-sac are cloaked from view by ancient and lovely woodland. Drake’s Pool, below Brookwood Brookwood isn’t an estate in the strict sense; it’s more a collection of highly individualised properties — the kind we call “whoppers” — rather than a uniform suburban development. The manner in which the ‘estate’ evolved in this deliciously low-density setting, within 78 acres of woodland, was not typical of a housing scheme. Accounts in the Irish Examiner state that site buyers and vendors had to sign forms agreeing to a cap of 10 houses — ensuring Brookwood’s exclusivity ’til doomsday. The first homes appeared around the early 1990s and, at planners’ insistence, were designed along the lines of a more traditional dormer, albeit with a great deal more heft. More were delivered in the 2000s and one — No 3 — was knocked and replaced by a 5,300sq ft contemporary, flat-roofed dwelling that sold in 2023 for €1.5m.
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