Spacious home ticks all the boxes

THEY say it takes three or four attempts at building a house before you get what you want, but the owners of this Killeagh, East Cork home got what they wanted first time around.

Unfortunately, though, this rangy, long country home is no longer in the right country for them. Designed and built by a Scottish engineer for his own family use and on 15 rural acres with a stream on its boundaries, Coillte forests behind and stables for horses, it ticked all the right boxes, but now they’re relocating home to Scotland they have to leave it all behind.

However, because the couple with three children got what they wanted the first time, they now aim to build a replica of their home back in Scotland, says John Gaffney of GVM Auctioneers.