House prices in Rathcormac
The median house in Rathcormac, Co. Cork sold for
€260,000
in 2025, across 21 sales that counted.
Every figure here comes from the Property Price Register, the official record of residential sales in Ireland, filed since 2010.
On the year before, the median rose 3.0%. Over the five years to 2025 it rose 48.6%.
Sales here carried the Eircode area P61.
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What the sales say
The kind of place Rathcormac is
Read out of the sales themselves. None of this is a description of what Rathcormac is like to live in, which we have no way of knowing. It is what changed hands here.
Still being added to
28% of sales since 2016 were new builds, so building has carried on here rather than stopped.
Houses much of a muchness
The dearer end of the middle half of sales went for 1.34 times the cheaper end, which is a narrow band. Places built as estates look like this, because the houses really are much the same.
Cheaper than Cork
The median here was 21% below the county median in 2025.
Rarely comes up
21 sales counted in 2025. At that rate, waiting for the right house here means waiting.
The shape of it
Year by year
- 2013€101,500
- 2014€123,500
- 2015€133,500
- 2016€160,000
- 2017€127,000
- 2018€167,500
- 2019€163,500
- 2020€175,000
- 2021€209,000
- 2022€235,000
- 2023€225,000
- 2024€252,500
- 2025€260,000
| Year | Median | Middle half | Sales | New builds | Set aside |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026part year | too few sales | – | 9 | 73% | 27 |
| 2025 | €260,000 | €224,000 to €300,000 | 21 | 67% | 44 |
| 2024 | €252,500 | €216,250 to €296,250 | 16 | 75% | 54 |
| 2023 | €225,000 | €181,000 to €245,000 | 19 | 72% | 51 |
| 2022 | €235,000 | €192,500 to €251,250 | 31 | 6% | 2 |
| 2021 | €209,000 | €170,000 to €235,250 | 22 | 12% | 4 |
| 2020 | €175,000 | €163,000 to €213,000 | 15 | 17% | 5 |
| 2019 | €163,500 | €113,000 to €180,000 | 38 | 7% | 4 |
| 2018 | €167,500 | €127,500 to €207,500 | 34 | 8% | 7 |
| 2017 | €127,000 | €37,500 to €165,000 | 25 | 14% | 10 |
| 2016 | €160,000 | €134,000 to €255,000 | 11 | 35% | 7 |
| 2015 | €133,500 | €106,750 to €146,125 | 22 | 19% | 5 |
| 2014 | €123,500 | €80,250 to €162,071 | 16 | 16% | 3 |
| 2013 | €101,500 | €55,000 to €173,125 | 12 | 8% | 1 |
| 2012 | too few sales | – | 6 | 14% | 6 |
| 2011 | too few sales | – | 5 | 38% | 3 |
| 2010 | too few sales | – | 3 | 50% | 4 |
Set aside counts the sales left out of each median: ones that were not at arm’s length, and ones where the recorded price left out the tax the buyer paid.
Most recent
The last 12 sales in Rathcormac
Addresses as filed for stamp duty, with the Eircode where the register carries one. Streets are linked where enough has sold on them for a page of their own.
- No14 The Beeches, Rathcormac, Co Corknew build13 August 2026€427,313ex VAT
- 23 The Beeches, Rathcormac, Co Corknew build7 August 2026€418,502ex VAT
- 67 Pairc An Oir, Rathcormac, CorkP61 X2977 August 2026 on Pairc An Oir€301,000
- 3 The Beeches, Rathcormac, Co Corknew build31 July 2026€500,000ex VAT
- Beech Pk, Rathcormac, CorkP61 DH9931 July 2026€980,000
- 19 The Beeches, Rathcormacnew build24 July 2026€396,476ex VAT
- 18 The Beeches, Rathcormac, Co. Corknew build23 July 2026€418,502ex VAT
- 22 The Beeches, Rathcormacnew build17 July 2026€396,475ex VAT
- 21 The Beeches, Rathcormacnew build10 July 2026€396,476ex VAT
- 20 The Beeches, Rathcormac, Co. Corknew build9 July 2026€396,476ex VAT
- 17 The Beeches, Rathcormacnew build6 July 2026€418,502ex VAT
- 7 The Liffey Riversdale, Rathcormac, CorkP61 YW1330 June 2026€210,000
What your money buys
What sold, and at what price
Every counted sale in Rathcormac since 2023, sorted into bands. Recent years only, deliberately: over the whole register nearly half of everywhere looks cheap, because of what houses cost in 2012. The question this answers is whether anything at all sells for what you have now.
- €0k to €150k6 (9%)
- €150k to €250k25 (38%)
- €250k to €350k23 (35%)
- €350k to €500k9 (14%)
- €500k to €750k1 (2%)
- €750k and over1 (2%)
Where the sales are
Busiest streets and estates in Rathcormac
All 15 of them, counted over the whole register, so these span years rather than describing this one. A street needs five sales before it appears at all.
- Shanowen79 sales€197,000
- Lios An Ri62 sales€420,000
- Riversdale52 sales€155,000
- Pairc Na Greine31 sales€160,000
- Pairc An Oir27 sales€200,000
- Lisnagar21 sales€380,000
- Main St14 sales€75,000
- Mondaniel9 sales€181,500
- Ballybrowney6 sales€166,250
- Manor Mills6 sales€203,250
- Shanowen Rathcormac6 sales€206,500
- An Culan5 sales€245,000
- Bridgeland West5 sales€250,000
- Dispensary Lane5 sales€150,750
- Terramount5 sales€230,000
New against second hand
New builds in Rathcormac
In 2025 the median new build in Rathcormac sold for €420,000, against €260,000 for a second hand home, which puts new builds 62% above the rest of the market here. That is over 43 new build sales and 21 second hand ones.
The new build figure is reconstructed rather than recorded. A new home goes on the register at its price before Value Added Tax, so the filed figure has been multiplied by 1.135 to get back to what the buyer paid. New build prices across the country.
Recorded crime
Incidents at Rathcormac Garda station
Incidents recorded by this station across the district it covers, which is wider than the town it is named after. These are counts and not rates: there is no population figure here to divide by, so they cannot be used to compare one place with another. What they can show is the direction of travel in this one place.
Year by year
- 2020142
- 202192
- 2022122
- 2023130
- 2024172
- 202596
Down 32% on 2020.
What was recorded in 2025
- Dangerous or negligent acts
- 20
- Road and traffic offences
- 20
- Theft and related offences
- 17
- Damage to property and to the environment offences
- 12
- Controlled drug offences
- 7
The five largest categories.
Source: Central Statistics Office, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, totalled by station and year rather than reproduced.
Elsewhere in Cork
Renting instead
If you are renting in Rathcormac
Rent is capped everywhere in the State now, at 2% or inflation a year, whichever is lower. Work out what your own rent can rise to or read what replaced Rent Pressure Zones.
How the place was worked out
The register has no town column. It has an address, and the place is read out of it: the county is stripped off and the part left at the end is the locality. Addresses that end in a street name rather than a place are not counted towards anywhere.
A place appears here only where at least forty sales were recorded in it, and a figure is printed for a year only where at least ten sales sat behind it.
Source: Property Services Regulatory Authority, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence and summarised rather than reproduced. Imported 9 September 2026.
Guides
Worth reading beside this
How to read an entry on the Property Price Register
The date is not the sale date, the address is whatever the solicitor typed, and about 15.2% of entries in our town-level comparison sample carry no Eircode. What each field means.
Why the price on the register is not what the buyer paid
About 10.4% of sales in our town-level comparison sample are filed without the VAT the buyer paid on top. A €400,000 new build appears as €352,423. How to spot one and what to add back.
What a house actually gained between two sales
1,099 properties in our town-level comparison sample have sold more than once. Matching the two sales gives a real gain on a real house, which is a different thing to a national index.