34 acres of pasture with refurbished period house
Woodfield was a 2,000-acre estate in its earlier days, with its own national school for the tenants’ children.
Dating to the 1700s, Woodfield was initially associated with the Bridgeman family
The lands dwindled down to what’s now 34 acres of pasture and some woodland, the house fell into dereliction, and was rescued only in the past decade by Susan and Seamus Lynch. They saved the house, restoring the 5,000 square feet home to a very high level. Still left to refurbish — perhaps as part of a farm-based enterprise — is the complex of old, stone courtyard buildings.
The 3,600 square feet courtyard has four traditional style stables, three store rooms and a coach house with overhead loft. There’s a graveled area with a 1,300 square feet stone barn, plus another 630 square feet building on the other side of the main house, along with an outer yard with a long stone shed, hay barn and cattle crush, plus an arch to a walled-in area.
Woodfield House has 200 metres of frontage to Doon Lake. Limerick city and Shannon airport are about a 20 to 30 minute drive away, say agents ClareTipp Properties in Killaloe, who’ve reduced the asking price from €3 million to €1.8m for the high quality restoration makeover, done to an enviably high C1 energy rating/ BER cert.
