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IF AN ABUNDANCE of space and privacy tops your list when it comes to buying a new home, a five-bed detached property ticks all of the boxes.
With plenty of space for a growing family, hosting guests and the option to use a bedroom as a study or home office, five-bed homes offer endless potential. Plus, no immediate neighbours means you won’t be disturbed by whatever activities they get up to.
From €279,000 to €1,485,000, we’ve rounded up four properties around the country that match this description. Read on to see what’s on the market right now…
Glaskenny House is located on 6.5 acres of mature gardens and grounds. A bright and airy property throughout, the kitchen in particular is flooded with light thanks to a large feature window and several skylights. Work surfaces in the kitchen are a combination of rustic marble and solid wood, while the country-style units are solid wood.
There are three bedrooms on the ground floor, with the remaining two on the first floor, including the master bedroom. Glaskenny House boasts panoramic countryside views, while there’s also a five acre paddock available as part of the sale. Enniskerry village is just a five-minute drive away, as well as Powerscourt House and Gardens.
Spanning 2,500 sq ft, 32A Fairyhouse Lodge is a deceptively big property. Nestled in a quiet cul-de-sac, the ground floor comprises of an extended kitchen, utility room, dining room, sun room, reception room and guest bathroom. Upstairs, there are five generous-sized bedrooms, two en-suite bathrooms and a family bathroom.
The large decking area to the rear makes al fresco dining easy, while there’s also a stone and grass area for the little ones to play. Ratoath village is a 20 minute walk away, while the park and ride facility at Pace (near Dunboyne) can be reached within 10 minutes.
On the market for €375,000, the sale of Back Of The Hill, Ballintober, includes six acres of land, a detached double garage, a workshop, two stables and a tack room. Inside the property itself, there’s a games room and a gym in the converted attic.
The home is welcoming and warm throughout, with an AGA in the country-style kitchen and an Inglenook fireplace in the living room. Back Of The Hill sits in a quiet, rural location, with Moat town just five miles away.
The whole lot is on sale for €375,000.
Once a traditional cottage, Gurteen has been transformed into a modern residence while retaining its original homely charm. Situated on half an acre, the grounds are adorned with plants and shrubbery, vegetable plots and a children’s play area with a tree house. The most impressive outdoor feature, however, is the stone pizza oven located in a hut at the rear of the property.
Inside, there is underground heating throughout the ground floor, with a solid fuel stove in the open plan reception room to warm up guests as soon as they arrive. Exposed stone and plaster walls and vaulted ceilings mean Gurteen’s original character is maintained, despite its renovations.
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And that was our Summer!
@C H: Not had for Spring, though!
Best of luck to Leixlip/Lucan in their walk today to save St Catherines Park! The gov and councillors doing nothing to destroy this amenity and the area of Leixlip
@C H: how else are things in the future CH? Because it’s still splittin the stones here. Any chance of next week’s Lotto numbers PM me for God’s sake don’t post ‘em.
@C H: Jeeze. There’s three months of actual summer still to go! There’s been more sun in the last week than you’d usually get in almost a month in Dublin. We’re not doing too badly.
Any longer and the Government will stick a Tax on it
@cormac o neill: Government blah blah ….do this….. blah blah do that …….change the bloody record.
@cormac o neill: enjoy the sun misery guts……
@cormac o neill:
Always someone who brings the Government into it
@cormac o neill: sap.
Journal will you please do a fact check and find out if there’s good drying out. Thanks
@Matty kinevan: yep there is did two loads of washing and dried the lot for free on the line between the garage and the ESB pole. Then made a pot of nettle tea friend of mine countryman showed me how to pick just the tips of the nettles from the ditch between ours and next field without getting stung. I mentioned to him an article read in the Journal this week and he said O yes my mother in law swore by it and I offered my mother a cup and she said God my grandfather swore by it so we all had some. Lovely. And free drying. Couldn’t be better unless found a way to make the washing machine work for free too.
@John O’Driscoll: I’ve made nettle soup a few times. Very nice, similar to spinach. Try a schneaky extension lead going into your neighbours gaff and run the washing machine off that. Bish bash bosh.
@Matty kinevan: what extension lead? It’s an 1892 model. My elderly mother cranks the handle and the drum and mangle goes round with my clothes in. The cast iron’s getting a bit heavy for her now she’s nearly in her 80s but I should get a few years more out of her yet. It’s feedin’ her in between washes is the cost. So you were saying about nettle soup like spinach again is there a recipe you can give me?
relax it its a sunday , chillax shoot the breeze
@Seamus Davey: What breeze?
@Paraic McDonagh:
Grand breeze here on curacloe beech
Was going to do a bit of sanding and varnishing round my mum and late dad’s home today but a friend who’s more church-going than me said ”It’s not a cow caught in a ditch. Relax it’s Sunday.” In Israel you can’t even press the buttons on a lift so suppose driving down to the village to get a few beers to split with my mother and sister is a mortaller in some views. Take me chances. Great excuse for lazin on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Sometimes religion makes a jot or tittle of sense.
Some belter of a day. Can’t wait to see all the cider heads with the big red raw heads in work tomorrow. “Bar garden weather bud”
@Science of beer: Big pint of water and two Solpadeines no probs mate. Make sure it’s not a small pint is all.
@John O’Driscoll: Before bed as in.
Its 23 here.
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