Callely’s controversial pad up for sale
A cursory glance at Clonakilty-based auctioneer Henry O’Leary’s website shows his sumptuous Bantry home on the market for €650,000.
Maybe he found the bucolic lifestyle isn’t all it’s painted to be? And, maybe rising at dawn to “milk the cows” every morning (when he wasn’t in the Seanad) just took its toll? Maybe despite the cosmopolitan nature of West Cork living, he is craving the urban grit and buzz of Dublin life?
Sources in West Cork believe he’s “not frantic to move” and that despite first putting the house on the market two years ago, he has never sought to adjust to the market by dropping the asking price.
Described as “beautifully built and perfectly positioned on a spectacular site” and “with breathtaking bay views”, the former junior minister’s home is described (not unlike himself) as “unique”.
With a floor area of 3,000 square feet, the auctioneers says it is a “a stunning setting for either a full time family home or a spectacular holiday home”.
And we all know the depth of Senator Callely’s love affair with West Cork, deciding after he lost his Dublin North Central Dáil seat to ditch his Clontarf home so that he could make Kilcrohane his “full-time family home”.
It appears now that it may not have worked out though.
The house includes an open plan kitchen/dining/sitting area with stone interior and slate floors, a living room and four double bedrooms. The site also includes the controversial detached garage which got Ivor into a bit of pickle with the planning authorities when it emerged it included even more bedrooms. His planning permission was for a garage and nothing more.
The Henry O’Leary website describes the Fianna Fáil politician’s home as having ” one of the most amazing patios one is likely to come across”.
There are about 40 pictures of the house online. With all the controversy this home has courted in recent years, it could be sold as “rich in political intrigue”.
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