TRADING UP
NEAR the picturesque stone Crooke Church which is popular for weddings, and also close to the reported burial place of the Croppy Boy of United Irishmen ballad fame, are 10 modern Passage East homes with coastal vistas.
Pretty much doing what the address Creadan View suggests, No 10 has a lot going for it: location, beach and sea views, aspect, proximity to the sea, a decent site — and a family home in perfect nick.
Carrying a €380,000 asking price with REMAX agent Margaret Fogarty, it is a well groomed and decorated dormer home, with its rooms laid out to maximise the views and light, as well as giving easy access to garden decking for outdoor dining and view soaking.
It has a formal sitting room, relaxed and well-finished kitchen/dining room with Stanley cooker and porcelain-tiled floor, opening to a gable sun-room section, plus two ground floor bedrooms and bathroom.
Overhead are two more bedrooms, both en suite and the master bedroom has French doors to a gable balcony.
Externally, it is all fairly easy to keep, with a dash finish and some brick quoins, there’s a brick-paved drive, and well-planted gardens.
Sq m: 185 (2,000 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 4
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
VERDICT: Every day could feel like a holiday in a location like this, just 10 minutes from Waterford city.
STANDING on an acre, this Beaufort, Kerry, home is a real box-ticker for families looking to trade-up or to move back to the Kingdom.
It’s one of 12 detached houses with contemporary design touches (part-stone facade with some timber cladding) in Churchtown Park, all of which are on similarly sized sites with, essentially, individual private entrances within.
The site, walled and with long, tall wood fencing behind, includes a large drive and double garage, and is within 15 minutes of Killarney and Killorglin.
Inside, this €445,000 offering via agents Coyne and Culloty has a mix of quality traditional touches and some contemporary, so there’s a polished stone hall floor with arched double doors to reception rooms, and the teak stairs has a sort of bull-nose lower step.
The hall’s entrance to the kitchen is done in a frame of glass blocks, while the kitchen itself has quality cream-painted wood units with hardwood tops, and a Belfast sink.
There are two reception rooms, plus a ground-floor bedroom/study. Three of the four other bedrooms are en suite, bringing the bathroom tally to five.
Sq m: 242 (2,600 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 5
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
VERDICT: Large houses in country clusters like this can be ideal for raising children — once they can get past the electronic gates into neighbours’s gardens to share playtime.
LOCATED in one of the oldest suburbs of Cork city and a short commute to town, this four-bed semi at 4 Tracton Avenue, Montenotte is a surefire family home in very good condition.
Better than that because it’s not only finished to a tee, it’s design-led with lots of expensive extras.
Although originally a three-bed, this house now has a fourth bedroom at ground floor level, and rather than the usual hasty conversion, is quite a sumptuous room with a wall of built-ins and en suite bathroom.
No 4 has been extended at the back and comes with a conservatory, fitted with a dining suite, and an eat-in kitchen in country cream.
Both living rooms interconnect, giving a great flow of space and there are library units fitted in the alcoves. The upper floor has a second, en suite room and two further bedrooms served by a main bathroom with large, corner Jacuzzi.
The grounds are meticulously finished with cobbled paving to the back and front and a range of beds and shrub borders.
Kevin Murray of Murray Browne is the estate agent here and he gives a reduced guide of €350,000 for the property, in a quiet setting.
Sq m: 145 (1,551sq ft)
Bedrooms: 4
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
VERDICT: An absolutely headache-free buy — no more expenditure needed.
A PERFECT trading up location, and a large family home on a decent corner site makes No 16 Bishopscourt Avenue in Cork’s western suburbs one to cast an eye over.
These distinctive homes easily swell to fit families, and many are on their second clutch of nesters, and update nicely as they’ve very practical layouts.
New to market with Johnny O’Flynn of Sherry FitzGerald, with a guide of €450,000, this is a four-bed, two-bathroom home with garage with conversion potential, anda walk-in attic space which neighbours have made over to a master bedroom en suite.
Mr O’Flynn says this south-facing home of just over 1,900 sq ft is well placed by a green area, in upper Bishopscourt, and it has neat front, side and back gardens. Rooms include a L-shaped living /dining room leading to a kitchen with painted units, a family room, a play room, utility with guest WC, and four overhead double bedrooms with family bathroom.
The main reception rooms have large picture windows which are a feature of these lofty, asymmetrical-shaped homes.
Sq. m: 178 (1,916 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 4
BER rating: Pending
Broadband: Yes
VERDICT: This house has slate instead of Bishopscourt’s more typical cedar-clad facades. These homes make for good family living space, and this example has an extra bit of garden on the side.
THE long, low-slung bungalow home Lytlewood is all done up, smart, bright and ready for new owners.
A family five-bed with two en suites, it’s on a half acre of grounds and landscaped gardens, just past the racecourse in Mallow, north Cork.
Although dating back to 1976, it’s now as good as new, overhauled, rewired, replumbed, with solar panels up on the roof for hot water, there’s oil central heating, and a pretty good C2 BER rating as a result of improvements.
Estate agents Savills seek offers around €375,000 for the light and airy home, ideal for traders-up in the area, or for those seeking to relocate.
Its main reception room is a sizeable 19’ by 16’, well over standard and with an open marble fireplace and French doors to a stone-ringed terrace, and the double aspect 20’ by 17’ family kitchen/dining room has modern wood units, polished porcelain tiled floor and French doors to that low, stone-walled patio/terrace.
Other rooms include utility, and a family bathroom.
Sq m: 178 (1,916 sq ft)
Bedrooms: 5
BER rating: C2
Broadband: Yes
VERDICT: Plenty of space outside on the half acre, with a useful patio overlooking a mature willow tree.
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