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Irish Examiner
23-06-2025
- Business
- Irish Examiner
13.5-acre East Cork holding has something for everyone
An intriguing 13-acre holding is new to the market with Midleton-based Hegarty Properties. A mixture of prime land, forestry and a quality home, it will attract a variety of interests. The property at Rathcuppogue is known as Meadowbrook Farm and is 7km south of Cloyne, 6km from Inch and 11km south of Midleton, in a very fertile part of East Cork. 'It's in the middle of everywhere, because you're surrounded by places like Cloyne village and Rostellan and only 10 minutes from Midleton on a very good road… and, you can walk to the beach,' says selling agent Adrianna Hegarty. The house is a south-facing two-storey farmhouse — built in the 1930s, extended in the 1960s, it has undergone substantial renovations and further extension in recent years. The land, however, also presents a strong attraction according to Ms Hegarty. 'The land is a big part of the property's appeal,' she says. 'People of all backgrounds are crying out for land.' For someone looking for some extra acreage, it may well suit to purchase and rent out the house and its substantial storage. The property's outbuildings include a hay shed, machinery shed, storage sheds and workshop. Both the grassland (about 7.5 acres) and the forestry land (five acres) are generating additional annual income — respectively €1,300 and €750. 'There's a lot of interest from people with horses, for example,' says Ms Hegarty says. The price guide is €610,000 but with an unusual property such as this, Ms Hegarty says it will be the market that decides its value. Read More 24.5-acre Waterford holding due for July auction
Irish Independent
20-06-2025
- Business
- Irish Independent
‘We used a saw to cut a hole into the wall and realised it was an old back stairs area' – hidden tunnels and secret rooms in Co Cork
Asking price: €1.6m Agent: Hegarty Properties (021) 4639411 A hidden tunnel, a secret room and links to the Knights Templar lend plenty of intriguing lore to historic Carewswood House, a five-bedroom, 4,823 sq ft pocket mansion which was originally constructed as a dower house to Castlemartyr House, now a resort hotel. Sitting on three acres, Carewswood still has the boarded up tunnel running from its basement area which likely served a dual purpose for the dowagers (widowed mothers or unmarried sisters) of the Earls of Shannon, who constructed Castlemartyr in the 18th century. While the dowager could walk back and forth to the 'Big House' along its covered 2km-plus length, without being exposed to the elements, the tunnel also provided for a failsafe escape in either direction back in fraught times when the natives were a good deal more antsy. Castlemartyr House, part of the Castlemartyr Resort, is beside the castle founded by the Knights Templar in 1210 under the leadership of Richard de Clare, better known as Strongbow. Following the seizure of the estate after the Geraldine Wars, these lands were handed over to Sir Walter Raleigh who later sold them on in 1602 to the Earl of Shannon. Earl Richard Boyle constructed an estate home there in the 1700s, and Carewswood followed, likely in 1814, just 2.4km away. 'In those days, the mother of the heir moved out of the house once her husband passed away and the son and heir remarried and took over the main house, and she would have lived here,' says its owner Gill Hornibrook, who comes from the locality. She bought the property in 1996 with her husband, the late Jack Hornibrook who headed up Hornibrook Builders. The couple had been living in nearby Glendonagh House, a 14-bedroom estate house, which they'd transformed into private nursing home. 'Glendonagh was a Victorian-style house and we'd always wanted a Georgian home,' she says. 'We were attracted to the size of Carewswood. It was the perfect place to raise our four daughters.' The previous owners had added a new roof, a maple floor in the kitchen and a mahogany floor in the dining room, both of which came from an old hotel in Midleton. 'It was a very basic Georgian house when we bought it but we did a major amount of work on it.' The reception rooms include a sitting room, a dining room and a TV room, all of which the couple updated and redecorated. 'We removed all of the old wallpaper and re-plastered and painted the walls, and had the plasterwork in the high ceilings repaired.' They added a front porch with French doors to the south-east facing front and insulated the walls throughout, contributing to its C-BER rating, unusual in a house this age. 'Given that my husband already had a team of craftsmen working for him, everything was done to a very high standard,' she says. 'In the hallway, for example, we searched everywhere to find old limestone to replace the existing slabs. It proved impossible, so we laid Travertine marble instead.' In the kitchen, they installed an Aga stove and had bespoke white solid wood units constructed and added a white dresser and a Belfast sink in the island. 'The island counter is teak and came from a night club,' explains Hornibrook. 'Everyone who comes into the kitchen comments on it.' Off the kitchen are two utility rooms. It opens to an east-facing sunroom which has underfloor heating. 'It's a lovely comfortable room that gets the sun all day,' she adds. Whilst renovating it, the couple came across a secret room which was boarded-up. 'My husband calculated that there was six feet of space extra between the wall and the door and thought there had to be something there. One of his carpenters used a saw to cut a hole that allowed us to see into the space and we realised it was an old back stairs area.' The rediscovered room was renovated and turned into a traditional bar which has high stools, a piano and seating along the wall. 'We've had some great family parties here,' says Hornibrook. 'All four of my daughters got married in Castlemartyr Resort and all of their 'day two parties' were held in the house.' There's also original granite steps leading to a basement, which houses a pool table. 'The steps are quite worn and we think that the same servants probably went between the two houses by foot.' Upstairs, there are five double bedrooms, all with en suite bathrooms (added by the couple). 'We've gone to great trouble to maintain the Georgian style in all of the rooms. It's a comfortable house without being ostentatious, and everyone feels at home here.' There's an outdoor courtyard at the back which they renovated in a Mediterranean style with Indian sandstone underfoot. Here, there's an outdoor office, a potting room for the garden and an outdoor bathroom. The original walls surrounding the estate still stand and there's a 1km driveway leading up to it. The grounds contains a Koi pond, a fountain and oak trees that are over 200 years old. The house comes with one-bedroom Gate Lodge, which they've also renovated. 'It had a tree growing in it when we bought the house,' laughs Hornibrook. Sadly, husband Jack died in 2023 so she's now downsizing to a house in Kinsale. 'I hope a family with young children buys it and looks after it because, really, we're just custodians of houses like this.' Hegarty Properties seeks €1.6m.
Irish Examiner
16-05-2025
- General
- Irish Examiner
Lots of wow factor at expertly renovated €355k Rose Cottage in East Cork
THE evocative name Rose Cottage suggests an idyllic way of life, which is what's served up at this Clonpriest East home, near Ballymacoda. Charming Rose Cottage It took a lot of grafting by its UK owner, Chris Chesterman, and his Ballymacoda cousin, builder Pat Shanahan, to get it where it is today, but the results are edifying. 'Just about habitable,' is how Chris describes what it looked like when he bought it in 2017. A 'basic' one-bed home, his initial instinct was to go for an internal refit, until covid came along and he had time — and savings —on his hands. 'I got carried away,' Chris says. Having added the main bedroom in 2018, as well as raising the living room ceiling into a vault (large chunks of the roof are new), going back in to add a mezzanine in 2022 seemed like a good idea. Vaulted ceiling in living room Main bedroom 'I wanted a bedroom for guests, so that's what the mezzanine is. Guest bedroom in the mezzanine We also added another bedroom in 2022, which I use as a study.' The study at Rose Cottage While Pat did most of the heavy lifting, Chris did the flooring and decorating, and installed a new kitchen, which he insulated. French doors open from it to a rear patio and southwest-facing garden. Chris, who retired in 2019, has a long association with Ballymacoda. It's his mother's native patch and her family once ran the local post office and shop. 'I've been coming here since I was two months old, it's always been a second home for me,' he says. Practicising horticulture was part of the plan as the cottage comes with a 0.54a paddock. Self-sufficiency on display in the paddock He boned up on the subject via a year-long course at the Organic College in Limerick. The fruits of his labours are evident in the industrial-size polytunnel and across the raised beds in the paddock. In truth, Chris has transformed the site into a template for self-sufficiency, from a starting point of a dense growth of ash trees 'so dense that you couldn't even walk from one side of the paddock to the other'. 'It took a lot of chainsaw work to clear it,' he says. He also installed an irrigation system. The cottage and site are in fine fettle now, but Chris, who has moved house 'many times', is on the move again. Living room with vaulted ceiling 'I know the Irish weather well, but what I hadn't accounted for was the complete lack of light in the winter. It began to get to me. I retreated to Australia a few times, and once to Greece, but I need more consistency and brightness and warmth.' And so he's off to France. He feels the cottage is ideal for anyone interested in growing their own. While it might be small for a family, there's great scope for further expansion. Selling agent Adrianna Hegarty, of Hegarty Properties, agrees that the cottage, on a quiet country lane, could be expanded, with planning permission, given the site size. She says interest in it is excellent, with lots of locals and young families in the area keen to view it. Couples who can work from home have shown interest too. Because it's near beaches (Pilmore Strand, Youghal beach (10-minute drive), Ring Strand (in nearby Knockadoon) there's a possibility it could also be bought as a holiday home. The guide price for Rose Cottage is €355,000. VERDICT: Top-notch renovation job. Ideal for self-sufficiency enthusiasts. As charming as the name suggests.
Irish Examiner
24-04-2025
- Business
- Irish Examiner
Buyer wanted for this €70k tiny Ballycotton boathouse dream. Or, dreamer wanted for this buy?
IT'S small, it's not perfectly formed, and it's either imperfectly or perfectly placed — but boy, this could be a beauty? Up for sale as an oddity, as a challenge, and as a chance to do something special (but, just what is the question?) is The Old Boathouse, located just above the water and the waves, at Ballycotton Harbour in East Cork. Boats for your boathouse... It's listed this week with estate agent Adrianna Hegarty, of Hegarty Properties, it has a €70,000 price guide, but valuing this one-off is nigh impossible? In one way, it's only a heap of stones with an outline and arch left on a tiny footprint of around 120sq m — that plot is about the size of a bungalow? — and with a history going back Ms Hegarty reckons to the 1830s. However, it has clearly seen better and more productive days here on the water's edge in the pretty seaside village with boats and fishing in its blood. It other ways, it's got that ineffable aura of 'potential' either for some accommodation use, as a guest pad of character, weekend getaway, or as a commercial operation — such as a coffee house or café — or some marine-related use. Ms Hegarty says she's getting almost random initial inquiries, as well as from those who love the sea and who would perhaps restore it to some boat or fishing use. It could be an Airbnb moneyspinner and a winner on Instagram with such a love out there for 'tiny homes'. On that score alone, it certainly scores. Access point, down steps It's got right of way access from Main Street, no services to hand to talk about, no roof, little more than a view, but 'is more than a building — it's a gateway to something extraordinary in one of East Cork's most beloved coastal communities,' says its selling agent VERDICT: A wooden 20sq m beach hut near Christchurch, at Mudeford Sandbank in Dorset, England, sold last autumn for £485,000, within 48 hours of going to market — with two previous hut sales there also in excess of £400,000. Sail of the century at €70k? So, clearly if the location is hot enough and the sea close enough, there's a buyer for every dream… Or is that a dreamer for every buy?
