Secure a trophy home for €2.2m

COMING up fast behind last month’s launch of the Anchorage is an adjoining property, Kinure, in Oysterhaven, Co Cork, which is set fair to sell at €2.2 million through Dermot Collins of SWS Property Services, Kinsale.

Designed by the same firm of architects, O’Riordan Staehli, and with the same precious shore frontage, Kinure is a trophy property in a region of many.

Who can beat a private, south-facing beach, a mooring off Oysterhaven Creek and an utterly private 2.5 acres of ground overlooking, the sea, the Old Head and Ballinclashet Creek with its discreet sprinkling of private moorings?

When the sun shines here on a fine summers day, you know you’re in God’s own country - but you need to pay to get in.

At €2.2 million this property is pitched considerably higher than the €1.6 million of next door, (which is now sale agreed after just over a month on the market), but it comes with more shore frontage and a much larger site.

Kinure includes a large residence of over 4,000 square feet and a number of well-built garages on its grounds.

These could easily convert to guest accommodation for those who prefer to outsource visitors.

And the main house affords plenty of room, with one wing offering self-contained accommodation on a grand scale with a large living room, conservatory and two bedrooms, one with ensuite.

The main area of the house consists of large, open plan rooms with windows facing out over the water. The more formal living room is 28’ by 18’ and comes with a splendid Donegal rug that covers most of the this tiled area. Sliding doors lead onto a sunroom facing due south which runs across the front of the house and then to the west is another lounge with feature fireplace facing south and west. This connects to a utility room that’s larger than most people’s kitchens and the fully fitted, galley-style kitchen connects to all rooms in the house and to the rear garden.

The bedroom wing is on the house’s eastern side and comprises four rooms, with the vintage of the property showing in the colour of the bathrooms.

The two and half acres of land is now mostly in tiered beds that have matured to cover most of the site, along with mature trees at the northern boundary with the road. The house can’t be seen from this angle, it can only be viewed from the sea - and that’s part of the draw for this singular, South Cork sale.