Period perfection

THIS time of year, the leaves are falling in drifts around the paddocks, grounds and long avenue of Acraboy House, a late Georgian Tipperary estate — and those same leaves will also muffle the clatter of horses hooves, if you don’t get to work soon with the yard brushes.

Near Monard and Tipperary town, and with Limerick Junction rail station just a mile away, Acraboy House is an end-of-year Christmas property package present for someone who’s been good all year, and who didn’t lose the head during the boom period.

If indeed such a person exists, then the finery of the 1840-built, 5,600 sq home, with yard, boxes and outbuildings as well as a games complex, can be yours, for as little as €1.5m, or with lots more land for closer to the €2m mark. Acraboy House is new to market with country home agent Edward Townshend of Colliers in Dublin, and is surrounded by six acres of grounds and gardens, and comes with 25 acres for the lower price.