{"id":528293,"date":"2026-07-01T22:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/528293\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T22:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:08:09","slug":"one-foot-in-the-grange-as-undertakers-buy-suburban-pub-in-e1m-plus-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/528293\/","title":{"rendered":"One foot in the Grange as undertakers buy suburban pub in \u20ac1m-plus deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jerh O’Connor Funeral Homes are the new owners of suburban hospitality landmark The Grange Bar & Restaurant<\/a>, in a deal valued at more than \u20ac1m.<\/p>\n

The undertakers have also confirmed to the Irish Examiner that a planning application has just been lodged for a comprehensive redevelopment of their existing funeral home at Glanmire’s Hazelwood Centre, east of Cork<\/a> city.<\/p>\n

The Glanmire project will be the focus of their attention in the medium term, and the long-established Grange Bar will continue to trade as a licensed premises for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

\"BrothersBrothers Brian (left) and Kevin O’Connor, directors of Jerh O’Connor Funeral Homes, at their Hazelwood Funeral Home in Glanmire, which is due to undergo a significant upgrade<\/p>\n

The Grange property – on a 0.54a site with 28m of road frontage and lots of car parking spaces – came to market in October last year via Rob Coughlan of Cohalan Downing following a decision by the owners, the O’Neill family, to put it up for sale. The property had been in their ownership since 1985.<\/p>\n

It’s now been purchased by another family-run business, fourth-generation undertakers, who have yet to reveal their plans for the premises.<\/p>\n

The plans for Glanmire, however, will be available for the public to inspect as they have now entered the planning process. In a statement to the Irish Examiner, the undertakers said their aim was to create “a modern, state-of-the-art and fit-for purpose facility to serve the future needs of families in Glanmire and the surrounding areas”.<\/p>\n

The statement said the proposed development “represents a significant reinvestment in the company’s footprint in Glanmire and forms part of a wider evolution plan of Jerh. O\u2019Connor Funeral Homes as a fourth-generation, local family business”.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Grange will continue to trade as a bar for the foreseeable future<\/p>\n

Director Kevin O’Connor said they had been “proud to serve the Glanmire community since taking over the service from the late Mr Tom Barry, a respected and long-established funeral director, in the early 2000s”.<\/p>\n

His brother and fellow director Brian O’Connor said Glanmire was “a very important community for our family business, and this proposed redevelopment reflects our long-term commitment to the area”.<\/p>\n

“Our goal is to provide families with a modern, dignified and fit-for-purpose funeral home while continuing to offer the personal care and support that people have come to expect from Jerh O’Connor Funeral Homes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"BullBull McCabe’s on Airport Road is set for conversion to residential units<\/p>\n

The undertakers currently serve a number of communities across Cork and have premises on Coburg St in Cork city centre, as well as in the city suburbs of Wiiton (Sarsfield Road); Ballintemple (Boreenmanna Road), Hazelwood in Glanmire and in Mayfield (Old Youghal Road).<\/p>\n

It’s not clear at this stage if the newly-acquired Grange premises will be re-purposed as a funeral home. Some recent pub sales in the city will see premises converted for alternative use.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bull McCabe’s on the Airport Road, which recently sold for \u20ac730,000 via Rob Coughlan, is poised for conversion into residential units by a husband-and-wife team with a track record of converting former pubs into living accommodation, while Reidy\u2019s Vault Bar on Western Road is the subject of a planning application for conversion into the city\u2019s second Son of a Bun outlet, after changing hands earlier this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jerh O’Connor Funeral Homes are the new owners of suburban hospitality landmark The Grange Bar & Restaurant, in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,4257,79,61,60],"class_list":["post-528293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cork-business","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}