04-07-2025
An A-rated cottage just 2km from the Atlantic coast for €595,000
The stone-clad section of Black Antler — a contemporary 145 sq m, A2-rated, single-storey countryside home — marks the spot where the original two-room cottage stood on this former working farm.
The 4.7-acre property had been vacant for 45 years when the present owners arrived in 2020. As the cottage was considered unstable, they opted to rebuild it using the original stone and turn into a single room — now the kitchen/diner with vaulted ceiling, a wall of exposed stone, sliding doors to an inner courtyard, custom-designed units with quartz counter tops, an island and integrated appliances.
This space is open to the living room extension, which has windows on three sides to maximise light and the views, a vaulted ceiling and a custom-built TV unit and electric fireplace.
A larger extension — clad in deep charred Siberian larch — on the other side of the cottage comprises an entrance hall with a huge picture window overlooking the courtyard, three bedrooms with built-in wardrobes and en suites, a guest WC and a utility room that doubles as an office. Connecting to the bedrooms is a hallway with floor-to-ceiling windows looking out to the countryside.
The house has triple-glazed windows throughout, air-to-water underfloor heating and an EV charger.
The property's outside space includes a long wooden-fenced driveway with views across to the spectacular Dartry mountains, patio, garden, paddocks and woodland. The agents note that the land could be suitable for hobby farming, equestrian use or to create wildflower meadows.
Black Antler is about 1.5km from the N15 and about 2km — as the crow flies — from the coast. Bundoran is 8km away and Mullaghmore is about 10km.
What we love The charred larch exterior and all those gorgeous window views. Good to know The house has been used as an Airbnb, achieving rates of €200 a night. Agent
A grand entrance hall with Ionic columns, pilasters, archways and a rotunda overhead is far from what you'd expect to see in a vernacular Irish country farmhouse built in the mid-19th century.
The 25 sq m hall in Bog Hall, Oristown, is part of a three-block extension added in 2006 during a full renovation of the existing house. Linked by new corridors on either side are the other blocks: a bedroom with an en suite at one end and a dining room with adjoining utility and guest WC at the other.
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The new hall also opens to the original hallway, off which are a living room on one side and the kitchen on the other. All four of the main ground-floor rooms are large and dual aspect.
Three more bedrooms and the family bathroom are upstairs.
The house is on one acre of lovely gardens that include herbaceous borders, formal courtyard areas, and mature shrubs and trees. Outbuildings include a renovated barn, a bespoke greenhouse set within the ruins of an old farm building, and a folly-style boiler house and turf building with gothic windows and columns salvaged from a local church.
What we love The big sash windows and the various shades of green woodwork. Good to know Kells is about 7km away and Navan is about 14km. Agent
Built in the mid-1800s, No 1 Richmond Terrace is an elegant two-storey over basement semi-detached home with lots of original features and views at the back — from its upper windows — of the River Slaney.
On Spawell Road, this 316 sq m house, which has been owned by the same family for almost 40 years, is within easy walking distance of Wexford town centre and just 650m from the train station.
Accessed at the front by a flight of granite steps, its ground-floor accommodation comprises entrance hall, two fine reception rooms, each with a pair of sash windows and original shutters, fireplace and decorative cornicing, plus a study/office.
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A contemporary staircase leads down to the basement, where the main event is a kitchen/living/dining room running the depth of the house. Features include an oil-fired Aga, wood-burning stove and two tall windows that open to the garden. Also at this level is a utility room.
Four bedrooms — one with direct access to a fire escape — are on the first floor and there are bathrooms on two returns. At the attic level, there's another WC and shower, plus a walk-in wardrobe and eaves storage.
The well-maintained outside space includes cobble-lock driveway, a courtyard, lawn, barbecue patio, herbaceous beds and mature trees and shrubs.
What we love The lovely windows and timber floors. Good to know The house is listed as a protected structure and is BER
