Chieftain-class home ready for any invasion

“CASHEL” is aptly-named. It’s a strong redoubt in the Cork countryside with high views over a number of townlands. Like the early ring-forts, the site is everything.

It faces out over the rolling drumlins of Cloghroe and has Mushera Mountain in the distance. Cork city is 15 minutes away.

With a total of 4,400 square feet, we're talking chieftain-class living here and enough room for the odd invasion, but that being said, the house settles in nicely into a it cut-out site at Coolatubrid, Carrigrohane, and comes with a €750,000 guide price.

This area has a Green Belt policy, which even an Árd Rí, apparently, couldn't get around.

According to selling agent, Robert Harkin of Countrywide Homes, the zoning policy has sharpened demand above and beyond existing market pressures.

"This level of house is extremely hard to get in this area, in terms of size, location and price," he says, "and there are lots of buyers in the locality looking to move out of existing developments to an upmarket house on its own site."

Cashel runs to three storeys and surrounded by a tree-lined boundary which guarantees absolute privacy.

From a distance, its most obvious features are the asymmetrical windows on the upper floor which provide wide-ranging views from floor level upwards in the master bedroom. The house is classically styled internally, but is very modern in layout and could be very cutting edge, depending on new owners.

The main entrance is via a teak deck at first-floor level where there are two, huge living rooms to the front and back, the larger of which has direct access down to the garden below.

A stairs leads downwards to the kitchen and separate dining room, both of which mirror the rooms overhead. Here, part of the huge garage has been converted to an artist's studio and there's still space for a utility and bathroom.

Up two more levels are the bedrooms Cashel has five in all, including a room which runs the length of the top floor.

The master has an en suite with double basin unit and all of the rooms are well-fitted and spacious.

Cashel is a unique property: it's big, but not showy, it's convenient, (school is literally a five-minute walk through the fields) but rural and it's got lots of privacy, but not too much garden to become a burden.

Off a quiet, country lane, this is sure to be someone's dream home.