Offering up a slice of scenic rural life

THE chance to buy a bit of Waterford’s Terra Firma, just downstream from the natural beauty and tourist attraction Mahon Falls, is on the local property market.

Crough Lodge is a four-bed home, in a natural setting beside State forestry, on half an acre of its own grounds. Go through a gate on the boundary and the forest is your literal backyard, while the Mahon river passes through the woods in a series of tumbling waterfalls and rock pools.

The extended, split level house is on the market with avid Shee of Shee and Hawe Property Partners, as well as with Fogarty Property Partners and Spratt Property Partners - the new real estate grouping obviously takes its partnerships seriously.

Price guide is €285,000, a level which will see local interest as well as possibly buyers returning from the UK looking for a slice of scenic rural life.

Location is at Mahonbridge, Leamybrien, 20 miles from Waterford city and 14 miles from Carrick-on-Suir and Dungarvan.

It is close enough to the river to hear the water’s gurgle, but not close enough to cause night-time incontinence from the constant running water sound, and the Mahon Falls themselves are a couple of miles up the road, a dramatic fall of several hundred feet down the saucer curves of Coum Mahon.

Accommodation at Crough Lodge includes hall with parquet floor, a large sitting room, kitchen with Belfast sink, a bright garden room with roof windows and French doors to the gardens.

The are two upper level bedrooms, one with ensuite, and a shower room, plus two garden level bedrooms, one with ensuite, the other could be used as a study and there’s a utility room as well.

The sale includes carpets, curtains and gas cooker.