Shore thing in top tourist spot

PROBABLY the best sited of a dozen or so houses, the semi-detached number 10, Michael Killeen Park, in Roundstone, Co Galway, is up for sale.

Agents Spencer Auctioneer seek offers of €550,000, and it joins number 7 on the market, the latter also priced at €555,000, via DNG Martin O’Connor.

Number 10 has a key selling point: 35 metres of water frontage, as pretty as a picture — and that is saying something, given Roundstone’s popularity with artists and the preponderance of local scenes gracing ‘first’ homes in salubrious parts of Dublin and elsewhere.

The front is communal, with graceful aspen trees and the private garden is well-kept, and there’s side access to the rear terraces and that all-important water aspect, and fortunate residents have their own private harbour for small craft. Estate agent Rod Spencer says you can keep a dinghy or currach here, and nip around the few hundred metres of shoreline to the sheltering harbour for a pint, soup and a sandwich in famed O’Dowds, and row back or walk home in five minutes. The house itself is a three-bed, with hall, fitted kitchen, 20’ by 12’ sitting room with granite/stone fireplace, back boiler (electric storage heating is the main heat source) and there’s direct terrace access.

Number 10 is offered for sale with furniture included: go strong enough on the price, and you’ll probably get a boat thrown in, as well.