Holiday at home? Feel the heat at Cork's  Farnanes/Ovens where home has a sauna and BBQ + pizza oven

Curahaly Farnanes home is hot to trot

Currahaly home at Farnanes, Cork  is guided at €550,000 by Michaella Buckley of O'Mahony Walsh

Curahaly, Farnanes Cork
€550,000
Size	196 sq m + 44 sq m 2,110 sq ft + 474 sq ft
Bedrooms	5 + 1
Bathrooms	3 + 1
BER	C3

YOU don’t have to go to the seaside, beaches or holiday hideaways for mobile saunas, mobile food trucks and a good time in the sun – you have the option here, to hand, on the doorstep, of this Currahaly, Farnanes family home.

Get cookin'

Set in Cork’s Lee Valley, out along the N22 heading to Macroom and Kerry, 20 minutes from Cork’s western suburbs and 10 or 15 mins from Ballincollig and EMC, this fresh-to-market offer is a detached family home on a south-facing, half acre site. It’s one in a row of one-offs (all pretty substantial in size too) parallelling the N22, and comes with a detached garage/self contained studio apartment, outdoor barbecue area with pergola and wood-fired pizza oven. Indoors the main family bathroom has an infra-red sauna, so it’s quite the self contained lifestyle property in its own right.

Oh, and it even has a current layout with one of its front bedrooms being used as a home cinema, but the sale right now does not include the projector, or the wide screen, so new owners will have to make their own ‘Coming Soon’ plans for it.

The spacious family home is listed with a €550,000 AMV via agent Michaella Buckley of O’Mahony Walsh in Ballincollig, who says it’s immaculately maintained, on an attractively landscaped mature site with lots of trees and long, slightly elevated views over the Bride valley.

One of its four/five bedrooms is en suite; at ground there are two reception rooms, home office and guest WC, utility/laundry and pine fitted kitchen with island and side access to the outdoor entertainment area, with decked base and Perspex roof/pergola sheltering the cooking equipment, gas grill, sink and integrated pizza oven.

The Price Register shows over 20 sales in the past 15 years with a Currahaly address, with just three over €500,000, with two in the past two years, in 2023, Aisling at €580,000 and Rosemount House at €665,000, plus a further €100,000 for its lodge, in Farnanes’ Lower Currahaly.

VERDICT: Lots to enjoy in a setting just off the N22 and west of the city, ‘burbs and Ballincollig, with the amenities of Farran, the wood and Inniscarra lake a few miles to the north, and Killarney now an easier reach to the west since the opening of the €200m Macroom bypass.