High-spec Hawthorn Lodge

IT’S called a lodge, but in fairness, this Tipp-top house on the hill, Hawthorn Lodge, is a bit too grand for its modest-seeming name.

Set up on three acres on Urra Hill, near Puckane and Dromineer north of Nenagh in Tipperary overlooking Lough Derg, this is a contemporary-styled home that’s ready to move into.

Having enjoyed its setting, its owners (who bought it from two brothers who’d managed to get two rare plannings up here) are heading back to their Wicklow roots, hence its sale with agents Savills, who say it couldn’t be built to this level for the sort of sum it is now being sold for.