Town
St Joseph’s, Dunlicky Road, Kilkee, Co Clare
DNG O’Sullivan Hurley, €299,000
This double-fronted, semidetached four-bedroom dormer bungalow is on an elevated site 200m from the blue flag, horseshoe-shaped beach in the town of Kilkee. The bay-fronted house has a separate livingroom and kitchen, with two of its four bedrooms downstairs. It extends to 115sq m (1,237sq ft) and is in need of modernisation. A small yard at the back has pedestrian rear access.
Plus: Within skipping distance of the beach
Minus: The G Ber rating needs attention
Country
Ballinvegga Farmhouse, Ballywilliam, New Ross, Co Wexford
Liberty Blue, €295,000
This four-bedroom, two-bathroom farmhouse has a lovely country-home aesthetic. It has a broken-plan parquet-floor livingroom, leading through to a flagstone kitchen. There’s a home office, wood-burning stove and bedrooms under the vaulted eaves, with low-set cottage windows. Built in the 1880s, this property was once home to Annie Power, the grandmother of Eamon Cleary, who bred the Cheltenham Champion Hurdle-winning mare named in her honour. It comes with 3.6 acres of land, haybarn and outbuildings.
