A dream Killarney home displaying the very hallmarks of perfection

WITH its back up against a tree-lined hill and a rural setting, a house called Dunmore in Ballaugh, three miles from Killarney gives all the space inside and out that a home-buying family might want.

The modern five-bed house is just on the market with Tanya Coyne of Coyne and Culloty, who guides it at €450,000 and who enthuses "it is perfect in every way."

"There's usually a 'but' with just about every house, something needing work, a change in decoration or the wrong location, but buyers will find it hard to find any negatives with Dunmore," she says.

What she terms "a true dream home" is a crisply decorated and modern dormer house, with three reception rooms and with three of its five bedrooms en suite.

Quality touches include oak and maritime pine floors, light oak kitchen units, good light fittings, and extensively tiled bathrooms, and lots of them.

It is on a site of three-quarters of an acre, well-landscaped and tended to by its garden-proud owner, and location is three miles out from the town on the Mallow road.

The exterior has a raised deck at the back, curved approach drive with lighting, railway sleeper edging and large boulders as decorative touches a heavy hand for a nice touch.

There is also a sheltering double car port and car washing area to the back of the house, plus useful storage sheds.

Accommodation includes living room, dining room, large Edwardian-style conservatory on the gable with glazed roof, spacious hall, guest WC, main family bathroom and utility. All five bedrooms have built-ins.

Both the kitchen and the conservatory have access to a spacious dining room.