Sneem property comes with 8 acres

EIGHT acres of land with water frontage gives this Sneem, Co Kerry home a sales advantage in a sluggish market — and having €100,000 lopped off the original asking price helps too.

Now guided at €395,000, this Derreenavurrig, Sneem home has been designed by local Kenmare-based architects DOD, and is just a mile out the Ring Of Kerry from this most picturesque of villages.

While other Sneem and Kenmare scheme-built houses struggle to sell and to get good prices thanks to an over-supply, this one-off has individuality and land as its trump cards. And, it’s oh so scenic.

It looks back along the shoreline of Kenmare Bay to Sneem, and to the new hotel built there in the mid-2000s and shares the seaweed strewn, indented coastline that is such a feature of this section of coastline west of Parknasilla. Ideal for dinghy, boat or kayak owners, daily dippers or divers too.

This 1,700 sq ft all stone-faced home only has three bedrooms, but all have en suite bathrooms, so it’s a case of quality rather than quantity when it comes to over-nighting and chilling out.

Decor levels are high, in a sort of showhouse standard way, with porcelain tiled floors, super-slick kitchen with granite tops, built-in coffee maker and a breakfast bar set for prime views via the slight glazed box window extension and French doors. Just off the kitchen is the main 20’ by 14’ open plan living room, with similar vista, and more patio doors, while the solid-roofed gable conservatory is on the room’s other side, also carpeted for comfort. Also next to the kitchen is a utility room with solid wood units, and a wine cooler. All three bedrooms are carpeted, and each’s en suite has a bath, with gas heating.and underfloor heating at ground level.

VERDICT: You can bathe in Sneem scenery.