And room for a guest

Not only is there a fine, well-built and highly specified home on a half-acre county village site, but there’s also a guest apartment alongside — making for 2,800 sq ft of accommodation for €275,000.

That’s €100 psf for a walk-in job, landscaped grounds, the lot.

Agent Pat Falvey, of Carlton Estates, put this Donoughmore dormer up for sale in mid-summer — around about US independence day, Jul 4, and it quickly went under offer — and hit a speed bump.