Almost Heaven, take me home, down the valley road to €440,000 Petey Peters in Glengarriff
Petey Peters, Coomarkane, Glengarriff
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Glengarriff, West Cork |
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€440,000 |
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Size |
111 sq m (1200 sq ft) |
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Bedrooms |
2 |
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Bathrooms |
1 |
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BER |
D2 |
Bachelor farmer Petey Peters lived in a valley of such spectacular natural beauty that it was almost otherworldly.
Although he lived on his own, he was a sociable fellow, handy at playing the harmonica, good for a few tunes at The Stations, an ancient Irish tradition where the chosen host family spent months preparing their house for the celebration of Mass at the kitchen table. He loved Gaelic football too and would always turn out for social occasions, making his way to Glengarriff village, from his home, four miles away, in the Coomarkane Valley.
The beauty of the place would have to be seen to be believed and it was seen by millions of cinemagoers in the mid 1990s when the David Puttnam-produced War of the Buttons went on global release.
Mr Puttnam had used the clifftop that faces across the valley from Petey Peters home, known as Eagles Nest, as the backdrop to some of the scenes. Atop Eagles Nest is Barley Lake, an ancient and glorious coom, left behind by a melting glacier that tore a crater in the Caha Mountains as it made its way to sea-level 10,000 years ago.
It’s been said that Heaven is somewhere between Coomarkane and Barley Lake, and if that’s the case, Petey Peters is still there in spirit, having passed away some years ago in his mid-90s.
Petey Peters legacy has been built on for future generations by an English couple who have given new life to his well lived-in 1200 sq ft home, while preserving the traditional farmhouse form. Fresh and white on the outside, with contrasting red sash windows, it’s a welcoming beacon on the valley floor.
Inside is an homage too to the traditional farmhouse, with lots of exposed stone-cut walls and slate stone flooring, while a fireman-red Stanley stove and Belfast sink the kitchen hint at a bygone era.
Denis Harrington of Harrington Estates, who sold Petey Peters two-bed home to the couple about six years ago and is selling it again now on their behalf, says they were the perfect fit for the property and did a “magnificent job” which included insulating ceilings, floors and walls, installing new private sewage treatment and re-doing the electrics, along with solid fuel heating.
They built a Shepherd’s Hut too, with wheels so that it can be moved, in which one of their elderly dads lived during covid.
Beautifully kitted out with open plan kitchenette/breakfast bar, bedroom and shower room, it’s a ready-made Air BnB facility for the buyers of Petey Peters.
Along with the view, the restored farmhouse and the Shepherd’s Hut, the sale includes nine acres, cut through by a stream, a tributary of the Coomarkane River, as well as kennels with a dog run, numerous storage and livestock outbuildings plus two stone-built original farm dwellings which the Mr Harrington says have “immense potential".
The setting, he says, is second to none, with the with the mountain climb along the Beara Way to the south, the cliff face of the Eagles Nest to the north “and the sumptuous valley all round".
Given it’s the kind of dreamy Irish landscape that foreigners lap up, it’s already attracting considerable overseas interest, from as far afield as New Mexico, as well as Italy and the UK.
The guide price for Petey Peters home is €440,000
Hard to put a price on something as special as this. Likely to go to an overseas buyer.
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