Secret Garden is a family-owned stone cottage right next to a beautiful park on the Beara Peninsula, says Trish Dromey.

Fairy Field near Castlecove on the ring of Kerry is an old world cottage with quite a captivating name.

Sixteen acres of land, some interesting history and a scenic location in one of Kerry’s best known tourist spots should make Askive House in Parknasilla very attractive to foreign buyers.

This unusually converted family home started off as stables for local landlords in 1880, writes Trish Dromey.

Last of trio of thatched houses in Sheen Falls, Kenmare, has five-star hotel accommodation says Tommy Barker.

This year was the year of the Big Ask, but of a lot less delivery, in the multi-million euro house sale league.

Five-star luxury and thatched Irish houses don’t normally go hand in hand – with the latter, you normally take the rough (and sometimes uncombed) with the smooth.

Rare land, house, bog, commonage and island sale in Kerry’s Derrynane harbour will stir interest.

Dingle manor has won numerous awards and would be ideal for family or other uses, Tommy Barker reports.

Martin Kraut has a musical connection to The Dubliners and a symphonic home standing on lyrical acres, Tommy Barker reports

Bright and cheerful with lots of varnished pine, this south Kerry property sits on 1.6 acres and there’s lots of room for expansion, Tommy Barker reports

Although modest outside, Stoneacre, Kenmare was built and finished to an exceptional standard by two interior designers who had made it their professional calling card. Below right: Adare’s 16,500 sq ft Winterwood was Limerick’s big sale at €1.78m

Follow your dream with this seven acre Ring of Kerry property, Tommy Barker reports

FIRIES, KERRY €495,000

John Daly of Sherry Fitzgerald Daly in Kenmare at the southern end of the county states that “People tend to choose the area first and then try to find the property that will fit in.”

THE views are scenic and the accommodation is modern and spacious at this four bed detached property at Killaha near Kenmare in south Kerry.

SURROUNDED by acres of mountain and bounded by a babbling brook, this farm of 309 acres near Kilgarvan, Co Kerry, is ideal for those seeking splendid isolation.

WALKING distance to Parknasilla golf course is the first draw for this house, at Rosdohan, Tahilla, near Sneem, in Co Kerry.

IT’s a good 18 miles from Kenmare, but Collurus peninsula is a place apart.

SHERRY FitzGerald Daly could have a bun-fight on their hands, when this 50-acre farm comes up for executor’s sale auction on June 11.

Tommy Barker on a five-star package at Sheen Falls Country Club.

Rose Martin delights in this gem within an ass’s roar of Kenmare.

LOCATION is always important when it comes to property, but sometimes it matters even more than usual. That is certainly true of this two-bedroom bungalow in Tahilla, Co Kerry, four miles from Sneem.

GONE are the days of Irish people living in boxy bothans up the side of Irish mountains — at least they are gone in places like Kenmare and along the Ring of Kerry.

COASTAL Kerry town Kenmare has been awash with newly-built holiday homes in the past few years, with pending major town centre developments.

Tommy Barker says unrivalled scenery enhances this unique home.

BUILT of stone sourced from its own site and constructed on a rocky perch, Limestone House in Kenmare, Co Kerry, satisfies a number of criteria.

FANCY a retirement home and a nice little earner? A collection of three cottages, two attached and one detached, on just under four acres of prime Kerry real estate are on offer through Mark Daly of Sherry FitzGerald Daly.

Dunkerron Lodge will require investment to realise its undoubted charm.