House for a fisher king

IF YOU go down to the woods today - around Ballyduff, perhaps - you could be in for a big surprise.

A little slate and stone house sheltered in 4.5 acres of woodland between Lismore and Fermoy is up for sale and it comes with it’s own trout lake.

This unusual sale is through John Twomey and Micheal Barry of Property Partners Barry and they are looking for offers of €400,000 for this three-bedroomed property.

While it has three reception rooms, this is not a huge house, but would be ideal for budding Thoreau’s in the woods. Little walks run through stands of ash, beech, walnut, cherry and sycamore and white thorn and on the western boundary is a stream which feeds the trout pond.

This was once a limestone quarry but was filled in to create the pond, now a strong selling point of this unique property. Incidentally, for the seriously fishing fixated, salmon can be had on the Blackwater, which is just a walk away from this cottage at Maymount, Ballyduff.