New house with garage and office has a pond stocked with 4,500 fish

CHRISTY MOORE’S song Lisdoonvarna has a line “climb a mountain, jump in a lake” - and this house near Boris in Carlow has the same range of outdoor activities on its doorstep.

Under the (long) shadow of Mount Leinster, this new-build home of 2,500sq ft has a novelty in the back gardens, a large fishing pond stocked with over 4,500 coarse fish.

The pond holds freshwater fish like tench, rudd and carp, ranging in weights from 2lb to 9lbs, says estate agent Tom Sloyan of Fogarty Property Partners in Kilkenny who, along with Thomas Byrne of Carlow, is handling the house sale, with the fish thrown in.

The detached and part-dormer home is recently built, along traditional lines, and settles well into its site and has views over to Mount Leinster - an increasingly popular spot for paragliding.

Price guide is €450,000-plus for this well-finished and decorated place with four bedrooms, two en suites, tiled entrance hall, sitting room/lounge, a 13’ by 20’ sunroom with wood-sheeted ceiling and walnut floor (and a hot tub outside the doors), while heating in the house is oil-fired and underfloor. The main bedroom has an arch to a first floor sitting room - a modern take on the 1800s boudoir or day room. Roll on in the chaise longue...

The property includes garage with office overhead, store, electronic access gates and mature boundaries, especially around the fishing pond which is ringed with alder and native hedgerows.