Period property offers escape to the country
Springfort House is an attractive, 575-square metre period home on 30 acres. There is the option to buy another 18.7 acres as a separate lot for €325,000.
The property had been a working farm but, in recent years, the land and the house were let separately.
The property’s owner, Mr Sharpe-Bolster, farms and runs a B&B at Glenlohane House. His daughter inherited Springfort House in the late 1990s, and is selling because she lives abroad.
Oddly, while long time owners the Sharpe-Bolsters call the home Springfort House, some people know it as Springville House, the name on the brochure. But this is the home’s sole oddity.
Surrounded by parkland and retaining many original features, Springfort is ideal for those seeking a manageable country estate within commuting distance of Cork, Kerry and Limerick.
Built around 1720, according to Desmond Sharpe-Bolster, the house was substantially extended in the 1840s.
Set in rolling parkland, with lots of mature timber, Springfort is a four-bedroom home with high ceilings. It has an attractive staircase in the main hallway, and a front porch addition. (Purists might sniff, says Desmond Sharpe-Bolster, but it’s worth it when a north-easterly blows).
The ground floor has a drawing room, morning room and dining room, with a kitchen and pantry, and a basement with wine cellar, guest WC, utility, study-playroom and rear hallway.
The first floor has a single bedroom, a bathroom and master bedroom and dressing room. The first floor has two more bedrooms. Outside are a stable block and coach house. The house has been rewired. It has oil heating, and is in good condition. The land is good quality arable, all in pasture now but had been used for tillage. The joint selling agents are John Linehan Auctioneer and Valuer, Kanturk, and Ganly Walters.
