Stylish island home on Sherkin

ISLAND life, and a comfortable good life, beckons at Kilmoon, a modern built home with style on easy-to-reach Sherkin Island.

Sherkin is a 10-minute ferry ride from Baltimore in west Cork, with a regular ferry service. The only easier islands to reach are those with bridges to them.

Kilmoon was built at the turn of the new millennium by a family that wholeheartedly embraced island life. They’ve made so much use of this second home, they’ve bought more land and are going to farm it, and build anew on the larger purchase.

This detached 2,000 sq ft bungalow with a few extra touches in the style department has four bedrooms, in a reverse or ‘upside down’ layout, on a naturally landscaped split level plot of three-quarters of an acre. A set of timber steps links the landscaped gardens, surrounded by naturalised hedging, fuschias, etc.

It is for sale with Keane Mahony Smith, who seek €410,000 for Kilmoon, and for this the house can be bought fully-furnished, pretty much as seen, bar the artwork and the piano which will move with the owners down the way. It has lots of decking — wrapping the gable end and two other sides — so there’s about 900 sq ft of wooden decking in all.

Accommodation includes hall, a 20’ by 15’ kitchen/dining room with appliances included in the sale, a music room/study, three ground floor bedrooms, plus bathroom (all tiled) and overhead is a feature 18’ by 15’ living room, with four Velux windows and slit gable windows for views, along with a further bedroom and shower room. Heating is electric underfloor and inside the ceilings for wrap-around heat, and the house is a walk-in job.