Holiday home with lovely views

FULL-ON views of Carrauntoohill, Ireland’s tallest mountain (but a molehill in world terms), come for free with this Kilderry home. Once you stump up the €740,000 asking price, that is.

A modern build, done in the late 1990s to an old template, it subtly re-works the traditional two-storey dwelling with architectural aplomb, with a detached 700 sq ft garage and overhead apartment alongside landscaped gardens, and a sand-based lawn tennis court to boot.

The neatness of this house’s design is exemplified in the way the windows are melded in, with a range of dormers front and back, roof lights, and angular frames, as well slotted into the gables of this stone-faced exterior.