Trading up: Dunhill, Co Waterford, €279,000

Sq m: 214 (2,300 sq ft)

There’s a good-sized site — almost 0.9 of an acre — with this eight-year-old Waterford family home.

Up for sale with agents REA O’Shea O’Toole with a €279,000 asking price, this two-storey four-bed family home fits in just over 2,300 sq ft of living space, plus an attached garage on its grounds, about two miles south from Kilmeaden and the same distance from Dunhill, at Ballycraddock.

That puts it within a nine mile commute of Waterford city, and the selling agents say the immediate hinterland is well served, with schools, amenities and local beauty spots, with Knockderry reservoir just to the west.

The house itself, they say, is well-proportioned, with one of its four bedrooms en suite, and living quarters include a 20’ by 14’ sitting room, plus a smaller living room (with wood-burning solid fuel stove) each with oak floors, and the kitchen/dining room is 25’ by 14’, with chestnut kitchen units.

There’s also a pantry, utility and guest WC.

And, just as quality timbers are used inside, the house’s grounds include copper beech hedging, with oak and alder planted, plus some dry stone walls as a landscaping feature.

VERDICT: Rural setting, near the coastline, Tramore and the city leaves lots of options.