Rock around the rocks
Oh, and quite a few creative types have been through its portals too, including singer Kate Bush and the hot rock act Snow Patrol.
Simply named, the Round House 'does exactly what it says on the tin,' it's a full circle containing some 2,500 square-ish feet of accommodation.
Built 25 years ago at Glashbeag, Ballydavid, the Round House has views of the dramatic sweeping shoulders of the Three Sisters, Murreagh and Smerwick Harbour.
Its vendor, a prominent Munster solicitor, obviously has an eye for a site; he says he designed this house to recall some structures built locally in earlier centuries, built in the round to give protection from howling winds, and the place burrows into its sloping site so that "when lying on the bed in the main bedroom, the sea, which is 100 yards away, seems to lap and dance by the windows," says its owner.
The same legal eagle also had an eagle eye for a Dublin Dalkey property called Martha's Vineyard which he bought back in 1993, and sold it on five years later to movie director Jim Sheridan for a five-fold sum, about €1.4 million. Jim Sheridan has since replaced that purchase with an even grander home on the Dalkey site.
The Round House near Ballydavid has worked a peculiar spell too, and among those who have stayed here have been Snow Patrol, spending six weeks in this house in spring.
Back in the early 1990s, singer songwriter Kate Bush stayed here.
Even now, the house has a baby grand piano in the master bedroom for those moments when inspiration strikes - or a serenade is called for.
The Round House, with 180 degree views of the sea and discrete stone finish, is in an area near Ballydavid not over-populated with many houses of any description and it has two restaurants next door, O'Gormans and the Pier House, but its two acres of grounds give more than enough privacy.
Selling agent is long established Dingle auctioneer, John P Moore, who has sold his own Dingle business recently to DNG Giles, but is staying on call to sell the Round House.
He gives it a €800,000-plus guide, and accepts that its special setting and relative uniqueness could see a buyer come from any area, Irish or overseas.
The Dingle peninsula house belonging to Dolores O'Riordan of the Cranberries was sold to a wealthy Irish buyer a couple of years ago, and well-heeled Irish favouring the Dingle peninsula typically come from Cork, Limerick and Dublin.
Accommodation in the Round House includes main open plan lounge, study/TV area, kitchen/breakfast room, master bedroom, two guest bedrooms, main bathroom, utility and walk-in linen cupboard.
The house is being sold virtually fully-furnished (down to a video library, TV, video and DVD,) and the sale even includes two fine paintings, one of the Three Sisters by Maurice McGonagle, and another dramatic painting of a fisherman which has been in pride of place since the house was built.
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