When size does matter

Spacious Dublin Pike home Dunroamin may put an end to your search for a house, writes Tommy Barker

YOUR house search could well be over if you like the look of this large Dublin Pike home, by a fish-stocked river and glen a few miles north of Cork city — after all, its name is Dunroamin. The house name was picked by its family owners (with eight children) when they bought it nine years ago, reckoning their days of roaming and house-building were over, done and dusted. But, now that the last of the clan have departed, it’s just too big.

It comes up for sale as a walk-in job via Paul O’Driscoll of Thos J O’Driscoll & Co, who’s open to offers around the €635,000 guide. It has about three-quarters of an acre of landscaped gardens, terraced and stepped at the back, with a lower bank of decking, veg and herb beds, lawns and more. Plus there’s a detached garage on the approach side of the property.