DUBLIN 4 €950,000:A PICTURE of the late journalist Cathal O'Shannon's father by Maurice McGonigal takes pride of place on the wall of the entrance hall of 99 Anglesea Road, Dublin 4.

Other than this, another portrait in the living room and shelves of books on the upstairs landing, there’s little left to remind that this was O’Shannon’s home until he died last November.

O’Shannon – reportedly described by Terry Wogan as Ireland’s best-ever TV journalist – and his late wife Patsy Dyke moved into the house in 1971.

The second last of a handsome terrace of redbricks close to the Donnybrook end of Anglesea Road, it’s a nicely-proportioned 1850s house with most of its centre roses and ornate cornicing intact.

There are two large nearly square rooms to the left of the entrance hall, both with marble fireplaces and tall sash windows with shutters. They don’t connect, but did originally – and it seems as if the wall between could be readily opened up.

There’s a kitchen at the back of the house, off which steep spiral stairs lead down to the back garden.

Upstairs are three large double bedrooms. From the bathroom at the top of the house, you can see into Donnybrook rugby grounds.

There’s a self-contained one-bedroom flat in the basement, with patio doors opening into the back garden. New owners could reinstate stairs linking upstairs and down, and relocate the kitchen to basement level, as so many people did in Celtic Tiger times.

A path in the back garden – well planted with trees and shrubs, and sheltered by stone walls – leads to a large double garage, accessed off Anglesea Lane.

The house is for sale through Sherry FitzGerald for €950,000.

99 Anglesea Road, Dublin 4

Three-bedroomed 1850s redbrick property with self-contained flat in basement. Agent: Sherry FitzGerald