Home is a collector’s item

A SORT of bring-and-buy, or buy-and-sell is on offer at this Addroon, Ruan, Ennis home — it’s packed to the gunwales with collectibles.

A second home for two or three decades to a retired photographer, who clearly had an eye for the unusual and the curious, it is now for sale, lock, stock and cartwheels, via agent, Paddy Darmody, of Sherry FitzGerald McMahon, in Clare.

He seeks offers around €139,500 for the renovated,

three-bedroom home on 2.5 acres of paddocks and woods, with old, stone shed/outbuildings, and Darmody says the sale “includes a treasure trove of collectibles. You could make a lot of your purchase money back by selling them on e-Bay, or spend enjoyable weekends at car-boot sales selling the bits and pieces you didn’t want.”

The vendor, he says, hasn’t any place to rehouse his mix of old cart wheels, agricultural implements, tools, ceramic sinks, and hickory golf clubs.

Beauty in some of the curios may be in the eye of the beholder, or there may even be some rare and valuable items — one thing’s for sure, viewing at this new-to-market home, given the catalogue of finds and antiques, will take as long as walking the couple of acres of land.

Location is near the southern end of the Burren, in a quiet setting, seven or eight miles north of Ennis and Barefield, with close access to the Ennis/Gort new motorway stretch.

This 740 sq ft home, offered with all furniture, as well as bounteous bric a brac, has a sitting room with back-boiler fireplace/solid fuel central heating (and has been dry-lined and has double-glazed, aluminium windows fitted) with kitchen and utility, three bedrooms and bathroom, oh, and numerous, old Belfast and ceramic sinks.