Lakeside cottage comes with modest price tag

BALLYOUGHTERA is a townland overlooking Lough Ine, the largest saltwater lake in Europe. It’s also the location of a renovated cottage currently on the market with Aidan Murphy of Sherry FitzGerald O’Neill.

Planning permission anywhere near this hugely important, marine biologist’s paradise is out of the question which gives existing dwellings and, in particular, older properties, a premium.

At €250,000, however, the asking price for this renovated property is modest, if not downright chaste, for this sector of West Cork.

The house comes with a fitted pine kitchen with solid birch floor, a living room with solid fuel stove and a dining room with quarry stone fireplace; both reception rooms are 18’ by 14’ and the kitchen is a comfortable 13’ by 7.’

A central staircase leads to the upper level where there are two bedrooms and a bathroom, all with pine floors.

One attractive extra is a mooring on the quay at Lough Ine (no more are available, according to Aidan Murphy), to which owners of the cottage have had a historical right.

The sale includes a wired and plumbed wooden chalet and a detached garage.

The grounds of 0.25 of an acre include a garden pond, a dedicated vegetable garden area, and mature trees and shrubs.

The cottage is just three miles from Skibbereen and four miles from Baltimore.