Co Wicklow, €1.05m
Located less than 1.5km from Druid’s Glen Hotel & Golf Resort, Kilquade Hill is an upmarket cul-de-sac development of 37 individually designed detached homes built from the late 1980s onwards.
Completed in 1999, Cuan, or No 23, is a 253 sq m two-storey house set on a beautifully landscaped 0.4-acre corner site. It’s just as good on the inside with hardwood flooring, fresh white walls and lots of connection with the garden — five sets of French doors lead outside from the kitchen and main living areas.
The main entrance opens into an attractive hallway with hardwood flooring and a solid beech staircase. On the right is a study that leads via pocket doors into the main living room.
The latter is a part-double height space — there’s a gallery landing overhead — with two sets of those French doors and a gas fireplace. As well as having doors back to the hall it opens to a dining room that in turn leads on to the large kitchen/breakfast room, which runs the depth of the house and has aFalcon range cooker, various integrated appliances, polished black granite worktops, porcelain tiled floors and an island. A guest WC and a utility are also on the ground floor.
Upstairs, along with the gallery landing are four bedrooms and the family bathroom. The main bedroom has the requisite en suite and walk-in wardrobe, plus double doors that open to a small balcony with views of the garden and a green space for residents next to the property.
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The house, which has a C2 energy rating, has oil-fired central heating, double glazing and underfloor heating throughout. A large garage can be accessed from inside the house.
The garden, which comprises lawn, mature planting and patio and gravelled areas, is surrounded by wooden fencing.
What we love The gorgeous staircase.
Good to know Planning permission was granted in 2006 for a two-storey extension that would have increased the accommodation to more than 400 sq m.
Agent mcgovernestates.ie
Co Cork, €895,000
As you might hope from a property perched up on The Hill in Baltimore, Four Winds has elevated and panoramic coastal views.
Used as a family holiday home at present, the 204 sq m, D2 energy-rated house has six bedrooms and two reception rooms, along with a basic kitchen, a sunroom and two bathrooms.
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The accommodation is divided across two floors — the house is split level at the back — with the reception rooms and three of the bedrooms on the upper level. Also up here is a 43 sq m sun deck that’s accessed from the living/dining room and the main bedroom, which also has an en suite.
The property is on a 0.25-acre site and has an attached garage.
What we love The fabulous views from the living room and the veranda.
Good to know It’s 650m from the centre of Baltimore.
Agent charlesmccarthy.com
Co Waterford, €2.5m
Location is the big selling point for Gladonia — a detached home on a 0.75-acre site on Cliff Road in Tramore with sea views at the front.
But there’s plenty more to see here. Built in 1990, the house was extended and remodelled in 2008 and offers 671 sq m of living space — including four bedrooms, six bathrooms, three reception rooms, an open-plan kitchen/dining room, an entrance hall with a handmade mahogany staircase and a 24 sq m laundry room with a bay window.
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Then there’s the leisure centre — gym, sauna, steam room, Jacuzzi and, most importantly, a swimming pool. The landscaped outside space includes a tennis court.
What we love It has to be the heated indoor swimming pool.
Good to know The asking price has been cut by €400,000 since the property went on the market last September.
Agent griffinproperties.ie and lawrencemcdonald.ie
Co Galway, €650,000
A 30-minute ferry ride from Cleggan Pier on the northwest coast of Galway and with fewer than 200 full-time residents, Inishbofin island is nicely off the beaten track.
Oyster Cottage and Seagull Cottage are a pair of neighbouring holiday homes directly in front of East End beach that have been helping to accommodate the annual influx of tourists to the island since the early 1990s.
More than 200 years old, these renovated fishermen’s cottages have half-doors, wooden floors, power showers, wood-burning stoves and oil-fired central heating. The space is limited — Seagull is 47 sq m, while Oyster is 31.5 sq m — but with loft, bunk and standard beds the cottages manage to sleep 11 people between them.
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What we love The glorious morning sunrises.
Good to know An outbuilding in the back garden has a games room/storage area and WC.
Agent mattosullivan.com
Dublin 12, €390,000
Extending to just 60 sq m of living space, No 76 Rathdrum Road is definitely on the compact side on the inside. However, this semi-detached two-bedder in Crumlin has the advantage of being on a decent-sized plot with plenty of room to expand, as many of its neighbours already have.
The 26m-long back garden ended up being something of a Covid lockdown project for the owners, who bought the house at the beginning of 2018. Their aim was to create a cottage-style garden with a mix of shrubs, trees and pollinator-friendly plants and flowers. Two raised beds are used to grow vegetables and there’s also a mixed gravel and patio area and a side patio with bamboo shrubs on one side.
The front garden has been gravelled and paved to allow for off-street parking.
The house, which was built about 1940, has also been upgraded over the past few years. Inside the front door — new, as are the windows — the entrance hall has a dado rail and a two-tone colour scheme. The living room is at the front and has a corner fireplace and wooden flooring.
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At the back, there’s an open-plan kitchen and dining room with another corner fireplace and French doors out to the garden.
Upstairs are two bedrooms and a smart bathroom with white subway tiles and black fittings.
The property has gas-fired central heating and a D2 energy rating. It was rewired in 2018.
The attic has been insulated and floored for storage. There’s more storage under the stairs, which is also home to the fridge-freezer. A few steps from the house, a large shed is connected to the mains and is being used as a utility room.
What we love The seating options dotted around the garden.
Good to know If you like this one, get your skates on — although it’s a private treaty sale the deadline for offers is 8pm on Saturday, June 1.
Agent auctioneera.ie
