Trading up: Pallaskenry, Limerick €900,000

Depending on what you are looking for, this Co Limerick whopper of a home with Shannon estuary view is either less, or more, than the sum of its many and sizeable parts.

The fact that its selling agent, Martin O’Donoghue of Treaty Auctioneers, says it’s only a five-minute helicopter trip to Shannon Airport, which is in view across the estuarine waters, speaks volumes of the era and economy in which this Georgian style home was built. It’s ten years old, conceived and delivered in the height of Celtic Tigerboom times.

On 20 acres of good land and a 15-minute commute west of Limerick city with views to Co Clare and the gothic Dromore Castle, this Ballydoole, Pallaskenry, home has more than 5,000 sq ft over four floors, with two main levels over a projecting lower ground level, home to offices, play room and two bedrooms. The main, first floor, has four more bedrooms, and the attic level has scope for two more bedrooms.

It’s set up for horses, too, with stables, and 18 of the 20 acres are in pasture with two acres recently planted up with oak trees. It has quality Sorpetaler windows and doors, and walls are built of blocks laid on the flat for extra wall width, with concrete floors, underfloor heating, and has oak joinery, coffered ceilings and mahogany stairs. There is a Stanley range cooker in the kitchen with (naturally, for the house’s build era,) granite tops.

VERDICT: There’s a lot been spent here, bring horses and a large family.