House prices in Skibbereen
The median house in Skibbereen, Co. Cork sold for
€305,000
in 2025, across 55 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 13.0%. Over the five years to 2025 it rose 72.3%.
2026 is still running. The median so far is €297,500 over 32 sales, which is not comparable with a full year.
Sales here carried the Eircode area P81.
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What the sales say
The kind of place Skibbereen is
Read out of the sales themselves. None of this is a description of what Skibbereen is like to live in, which we have no way of knowing. It is what changed hands here.
In line with Cork
The median here sat within a quarter of the county median in 2025, so it tracks the county rather than standing apart from it.
A steady market
55 sales counted in 2025. Enough changes hands for the figures to hold up.
The shape of it
Year by year
- 2010€150,000
- 2011€183,500
- 2012€100,000
- 2013€116,500
- 2014€146,250
- 2015€151,750
- 2016€154,500
- 2017€179,000
- 2018€180,000
- 2019€185,000
- 2020€177,000
- 2021€250,000
- 2022€240,000
- 2023€295,000
- 2024€270,000
- 2025€305,000
- 2026*€297,500
| Year | Median | Middle half | Sales | New builds | Set aside |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026part year | €297,500 | €246,250 to €373,750 | 32 | 6% | 3 |
| 2025 | €305,000 | €210,000 to €370,000 | 55 | 2% | 3 |
| 2024 | €270,000 | €186,500 to €347,375 | 68 | 3% | 7 |
| 2023 | €295,000 | €170,000 to €395,000 | 57 | 2% | 7 |
| 2022 | €240,000 | €155,000 to €296,000 | 63 | 2% | 5 |
| 2021 | €250,000 | €185,000 to €340,000 | 77 | 4% | 11 |
| 2020 | €177,000 | €133,750 to €222,500 | 47 | 8% | 11 |
| 2019 | €185,000 | €125,000 to €225,000 | 57 | 8% | 9 |
| 2018 | €180,000 | €110,000 to €250,000 | 73 | 4% | 10 |
| 2017 | €179,000 | €109,500 to €244,000 | 52 | 5% | 5 |
| 2016 | €154,500 | €101,500 to €183,500 | 64 | 4% | 4 |
| 2015 | €151,750 | €77,250 to €231,866 | 48 | 9% | 8 |
| 2014 | €146,250 | €107,500 to €200,000 | 48 | 8% | 4 |
| 2013 | €116,500 | €75,000 to €212,500 | 29 | 9% | 5 |
| 2012 | €100,000 | €41,500 to €158,750 | 30 | 0% | 3 |
| 2011 | €183,500 | €115,000 to €240,000 | 20 | 13% | 4 |
| 2010 | €150,000 | €80,000 to €190,000 | 25 | 4% | 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 Skibbereen
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.
- Mill Rd, Skibbereen, CorkP81 CY683 September 2026€250,000
- North Pier House, Heir Island, SkibbereenP81 RK771 September 2026 on Heir Island€700,000
- 32 The Moorings, Skibbereen, CorkP81 T62327 August 2026 on The Moorings€365,000
- 39 St Fachtnas Terrace, Skibbereen, CorkP81 FW7113 August 2026 on St Fachtnas Terrace€215,000
- 20 Ard Carraig, Skibbereen, CorkP81 PC6724 July 2026 on Ard Carraig€300,000
- The Bungalow, Mardyke Street, Skibbereennew build22 July 2026 on Mardyke St€100,000ex VAT
- 42 The Moorings, Glencurragh, SkibbereenP81 KD6020 July 2026 on Glencurragh · also sold €270,000 in 2024€335,000
- 57 Mardyke Street, Skibbereen, Co CorkP81 AX5613 July 2026 on Mardyke St€195,000
- Coronea, Skibbereen, CorkP81 FX479 July 2026 on Coronea€360,000
- 23 North St, Skibbereen, CorkP81 CH647 July 2026 on North St€97,500
- 39 Newbridge Park, Skibbereen, Co. CorkP81 PP8429 June 2026€460,000
- 5 Gortnaclohy Heights, Skibbereen, CorkP81 D32223 June 2026 on Gortnaclohy Heights€326,000
What your money buys
What sold, and at what price
Every counted sale in Skibbereen 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 €150k33 (16%)
- €150k to €250k42 (20%)
- €250k to €350k72 (34%)
- €350k to €500k44 (21%)
- €500k to €750k18 (8%)
- €750k and over3 (1%)
Where the sales are
Busiest streets and estates in Skibbereen
All 45 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.
- Baltimore Rd44 sales€215,000
- Church Cross42 sales€300,000
- Goleen26 sales€287,500
- Upper Bridge St26 sales€139,067
- The Moorings25 sales€190,000
- Market St24 sales€177,500
- North St24 sales€100,000
- The Mills23 sales€219,500
- Aughadown22 sales€248,000
- Mardyke St22 sales€80,000
- St Fachtnas Terrace19 sales€80,000
- Bridge Street18 sales€85,000
- Gortnaclohy15 sales€174,880
- The Hawthorns15 sales€220,000
- Tragumna15 sales€290,000
- Schull Rd14 sales€250,000
- Gortnaclohy Heights12 sales€170,000
- Ard Carraig11 sales€191,000
- Baltimore11 sales€235,000
- Castletownshend11 sales€225,000
- Leap11 sales€120,633
- Castletownsend10 sales€272,500
- Cork Road10 sales€197,500
- Coronea10 sales€227,500
- High St10 sales€90,000
- Chapel Court8 sales€240,000
- Riverdale8 sales€189,500
- Glencurragh7 sales€205,000
- Smorane7 sales€138,000
- Townsend St7 sales€147,500
- Townshend St7 sales€85,000
- Union Hall7 sales€272,500
- Castlehaven6 sales€333,500
- Coolnagurrane6 sales€264,600
- Heir Island6 sales€392,500
- Licknavar6 sales€160,000
- Sherkin Island6 sales€265,000
- Tooreen6 sales€182,500
- Bauravilla5 sales€170,000
- Cois Caol5 sales€142,500
- Crookhaven5 sales€620,000
- Kilnaclasha5 sales€285,000
- Lahertidaly5 sales€90,000
- Lassanaroe5 sales€320,000
- Poundlick5 sales€350,000
The other side of it
Renting in Skibbereen
The average rent registered in Skibbereen was €1,075 a month in October to December 2025. By bedrooms, by property type and quarter by quarter.
That is an average over tenancies registered with the Residential Tenancies Board, and the figure above it is a median over sales. Two different statistics about two different sets of homes, so nothing here divides one by the other.
Recorded crime
Incidents at Skibbereen 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
- 2020250
- 2021312
- 2022225
- 2023220
- 2024194
- 2025198
Down 21% on 2020.
What was recorded in 2025
- Road and traffic offences
- 34
- Attempts/threats to murder, assaults, harassments and related offences
- 33
- Public order and other social code offences
- 32
- Damage to property and to the environment offences
- 30
- Theft and related offences
- 22
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 Skibbereen
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.