West Cork period home has had full makeover

THE centrepiece of an exciting €1.3 million farm sale in 2004, the period residence at the heart of an 80-plus acre dairy farm, is back up for sale after a full makeover. Asking price now for the curiously-titled Madame House, offered on 5.5 acres at the townland of Madame, Ballinascarthy is €850,000.

The period home, four miles from Clonakilty and overlooking the scenic amenity lake at Madame, was bought six years ago by a local farmer and builder who was also actively building at nearby Clogagh.

Having kept the farmland and milk quota which he’d bought separate, and after a full renewal of the original 1830s house, including putting on a stone facade and pvc double glazing, he’s looking to move it on.