Charming three-bed Lake House is cream of the crop

THE creamery is long-gone, but the real remaining cream at Ballinlough is the lake – and right next to it is Lake House.

Up for sale in this west Cork setting just a couple of miles inland of Leap, Union Hall and Glandore harbour is this traditional house, which was for many years the home of the local creamery manager.

The creamery itself ‘went west’ back in the 1990s, with its large building and site lying idle since, and although bought by a duo for development, nothing has come of it yet. The creamery manager’s house subsequently changed hands, though, has been carefully minded and has lots of charm, all on a three-quarter acre site, and now is offered for sale again, ideal as country-bolt-hole or holiday home, with the adjoining lake a bit of a bonus. Estate agent Ray O’Neill of Sherry FitzGerald seeks offers around €195,000 for the three-bed property mix -and reassures that yes, even in the recent deluge and floods, the place stayed unaffected by any change in lake levels.