Is this Fairylawn house the cheapest in Ireland? At just €100 it has to be...

Ticket buyers will have a one in 10,000 chance to get A2-rated 1,033 sq ft three bed worth €350,000 in Fairylawn, Carrigaline, in Enable Ireland charity raffle

A home for €100 in Fairylawn, Janeville, Carrigaline via Enable Ireland's raffle

Janeville, Carrigaline
€100...One Hundred Euros
Size	96 sq m (1,033 sq ft)
Bedrooms	3
Bathrooms	3
BER	A2

A HOME for €100?

In this day and age?

You must be living in fairyland!

Nope this is Fairyland, not Fairylawn. @aidaaustinart

Well, you could be. Or, at the very least (and if luck is well on your side), you could be living in Fairylawn, the next coming section of the new homes development Janeville, in Cork’s Carrigaline, all for the princely sum of €100.

What are the chances?

Well, the odds are one in 10,000 to be quite precise. But, hey, the very home on offer for a trifle three-figure sum has a market value of €350,000, so you might as well make a small wager, make a big wish, and believe in the goodness of fairies, or Santa’s elves if you’ve been very good all year.

The Home for a Hundred Quid is a one-off offer from Irish charity Enable Ireland which is to raffle a 1,033 sq ft three-bed (one en suite) home in the next Fairylawn phase of Astra Construction’s Janeville development, where 368 home sales are so far recorded on the Price Register.

Astra Construction's Janeville, Carrigaline, where Fairlawn is the next section to be delivered. Prices are NOT expected to start from €100, though. Pic:  Dan Linehan

Previous sales go up to, and over €600,000 for detacheds. None are recorded at just €100.

The alluring prize — with the lucky winner selected by Easter — includes a real house, with an A2 BER, ready to go in 2024, plus vouchers each worth €5,000 a pop for EZ Living Interiors, and for Right Price Tiles and Flooring.

The elves behind all this magic are from Enable Ireland, who work with 13,000 Irish children and adults with disabilities in 14 counties. Here they are fundraising for a €7.5m facility at Cork’s Curraheen. To make a dream come true and to round out its budget, it needs to clear over €275,000 toward the fundraising goal from this house raffle.

L-R Susan Dineen, Right Price Tiles and Wood Flooring; Gavin White, EZ living Interiors; Anne Hegarty, Lead Volunteer Enable Ireland; Adam Clarke, seven-years old from Newcestown, Co. Cork and Stephen McCarthy, Astra Construction

Enable Ireland did a similar raffle during covid, for a house in The Willows, Carrigaline, which the lucky winner later sold for, well, an equivalent Windfall in The Willows.

This December Enable Ireland are appealing to home hunters, and to the wider public alike to take a chance, and to aid a good cause.

“A ticket is a perfect Christmas gift for family at home or abroad, and the opportunity should also appeal to parents and grandparents hoping to win a home for their children or their grandchildren,” says fundraiser Maria Desmond of the chance to have a dream home in Fairyland…sorry, in Fairylawn.

VERDICT: €100? You wouldn’t get a hoover for it. Take a chance and you just might clean up. See  www.winahousecork.ie, or call 021-4663305 and make a wish.