Shanagarry in Ballycotton offers quiet retreat in a haven of artisan crafts and cooking
There’s some quiet exalted company, top cuisine and craft workers supreme, surrounding this modest-seeming Shanagarry bungalow, on an acre of currently dormant, winter-slumbering gardens, in the east Cork coastal village near Ballycotton and beaches.
The long-time home of the late, sociable former Heineken Ireland export manager Bob Kennefick and his wife Una, this five-bed home was built in 1972, and is now for sale, guided at €310,000, by Midleton estate agent Adrianna Hegarty, who has six early viewings booked in already for Monday next.
Darina, Rachel and Rory Allen’s Ballymaloe Cookery School, and its formal and kitchen gardens, is just a short distance away to the north, nearby is Stephen Pearce’s pottery and the Kilkenny Design Centre, cafe and studios (potter Stephen Pearce’s ‘emporium,’ of old) just across the road by the stark outline of the 17th century Penn Castle, one-time home of one William Penn, whose names is now recalled in America’s Pennsylvania State.
And, some 300 years after William Penn crossed the Atlantic to the New World, another famous name came back the other way, spending time in Shanagarry.
The period Shanagarry House, on 11 acres next to this well-placed market offering, accommodated the late and legendary actor Marlon Brando back in 1995, when he, Johnny Depp and Deborah Winger were in Ballycotton for the filming of the aborted movie Divine Rapture.
Memorably, and distastefully, a bulky Mr Brando was snapped in his underpants at a window of Shangarry House, in an image that went global, ever before social media image sharing trends.
Launching this Shanagarry North 2,300 sq ft home to market, selling agent Ms Hegarty says it’s getting an initial pick-up from locals in the greater East Cork area, some who’ve sold and are looking for a detached home, as well as from Cork city, as its guide equates roughly to a three-bed suburban semi-d.
This home is on an acre, with a country/rural feel yet within a village setting with shops, bar, sports club, cafe and walks all to hand, as well as the sea and a bird sanctuary a few fields away.
It’s near beaches such as Garryvoe, Ardnahinch and Ballinamona, and there are distant, glimpsed views of Ballycotton Island from this property too: “The sale’s an ideal opportunity for those looking for a home in a sought-after, peaceful, country setting while still being only 15 minutes from the thriving town of Midleton,” notes Ms Hegarty.
Internally, it has been well maintained and there’s a comfortable, settled older home feel, with ‘good’ furniture and carpets, and rooms include a double aspect living room with solid fuel stove, a wood-floored dining room, a triple-aspect sun room with vaulted ceilings, a kitchen with craft-made pine units and a dark green, compact oil-fired Aga range cooker.
All five bedrooms are to one side of this bungalow, one is double aspect with en suite, plus there’s a main family bathroom, with porthole window, utility and guest WC off the kitchen.
There’s a long, gradually sloping entrance drive, easy parking and the acre of gardens is mature, with a shed.
Good as it stands, with lots of extra potential.
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