House of the week

It might be worth buying a boat for the house viewings at Lough Derg — there’s a rapidly growing mix of waterfront period homes here for sale, many for millions of euro.

They range from the 16-bed former hotel (in receivership), the Tinarana Estate on 222 acres, for €2 million with GVM and Knight Frank to St David’s, another period beauty, restored, on 17 acres Urra near Nenagh. Having sold for well over €1.5m earlier this year, St David’s now back for sale guided at €2.2m, while in the same aspirational price bracket also with KF is Kilteelagh House, Nenagh, on 25 acres by Dromineer Bay.

Now, into that mix comes a bit of a modern pretender, a 1970s-built replica villa or pavillion, with some salvaged Georgian architectural details, and on 50 woodland and waterside acres a mile from Tipp’s pretty Terryglass village.