Set back from the flag-stone shore and looking on to the cliffs of Aughinish, you enter another place at Mount Vernon, a magical country house whose owners, Mark Helmore and Aly Raftery, seem to have a special empathy with it. Named after George Washington's residence in Virginia, it was built in the 18th century for his friend Colonel Will ...
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Michael O’Sullivan and Laura O’Mahony left a perfectly normal home to take on this Regency townhouse in need of renovation in 2000; since then, they have been giving it enormous amounts of TLC on an ongoing basis and their efforts are now paying off, as it is reaching its full glory. A listed building, with notable historical an ...
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Warwick and Anne O’Hara’s gracious Victorian house is surrounded by mature trees and is just a meadow’s walk away from Lough Derravarragh where the mythical Children of Lir spent 300 years of their 900 year exile - the lough is now occupied by a pleasing population of brown trout, pike, eels and other coarse fish. This has ...
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This elegant three-storey Georgian townhouse, built in 1818, faces out on to Kilbrogan Hill, a quiet, mostly residential street in Bandon town. In 1992 brother and sister Catherine and David Fitzmaurice bought it in a dilapidated state and, following sympathetic restoration, opened as a guesthouse in 2004. You get the feeling that this ...
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Impressively perched on a promontory above the River Boyne, this handsome Victorian and Italiana ...
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Since buying this appealing period property near Slane in 2002, Trish and Brian Conroy have rest ...
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Mary and Maurice Harnett’s beautiful early Victorian house is just on the edge of Killarne ...
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George and Antoinette Kavanagh have been welcoming guests to their lovely hillside house above W ...
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Situated in beautiful unspoilt rolling pastures about 20 minutes from Wexford town (and half an ...
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This fine Georgian residence overlooking the beautiful River Suck was built in the enclosure of ...
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