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IF AN ABUNDANCE of space and privacy tops your list when it comes to buying a new home, a five-bed detached property ticks all of the boxes.
With plenty of space for a growing family, hosting guests and the option to use a bedroom as a study or home office, five-bed homes offer endless potential. Plus, no immediate neighbours means you won’t be disturbed by whatever activities they get up to.
From €279,000 to €1,485,000, we’ve rounded up four properties around the country that match this description. Read on to see what’s on the market right now…
Glaskenny House is located on 6.5 acres of mature gardens and grounds. A bright and airy property throughout, the kitchen in particular is flooded with light thanks to a large feature window and several skylights. Work surfaces in the kitchen are a combination of rustic marble and solid wood, while the country-style units are solid wood.
There are three bedrooms on the ground floor, with the remaining two on the first floor, including the master bedroom. Glaskenny House boasts panoramic countryside views, while there’s also a five acre paddock available as part of the sale. Enniskerry village is just a five-minute drive away, as well as Powerscourt House and Gardens.
Spanning 2,500 sq ft, 32A Fairyhouse Lodge is a deceptively big property. Nestled in a quiet cul-de-sac, the ground floor comprises of an extended kitchen, utility room, dining room, sun room, reception room and guest bathroom. Upstairs, there are five generous-sized bedrooms, two en-suite bathrooms and a family bathroom.
The large decking area to the rear makes al fresco dining easy, while there’s also a stone and grass area for the little ones to play. Ratoath village is a 20 minute walk away, while the park and ride facility at Pace (near Dunboyne) can be reached within 10 minutes.
On the market for €375,000, the sale of Back Of The Hill, Ballintober, includes six acres of land, a detached double garage, a workshop, two stables and a tack room. Inside the property itself, there’s a games room and a gym in the converted attic.
The home is welcoming and warm throughout, with an AGA in the country-style kitchen and an Inglenook fireplace in the living room. Back Of The Hill sits in a quiet, rural location, with Moat town just five miles away.
The whole lot is on sale for €375,000.
Once a traditional cottage, Gurteen has been transformed into a modern residence while retaining its original homely charm. Situated on half an acre, the grounds are adorned with plants and shrubbery, vegetable plots and a children’s play area with a tree house. The most impressive outdoor feature, however, is the stone pizza oven located in a hut at the rear of the property.
Inside, there is underground heating throughout the ground floor, with a solid fuel stove in the open plan reception room to warm up guests as soon as they arrive. Exposed stone and plaster walls and vaulted ceilings mean Gurteen’s original character is maintained, despite its renovations.
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Tubs has to go along with the top executives.At best they were asleep at the wheel at worst down right corrupt. And as for Ryan he should have been honest from the start.
@Adrian:
he wasn’t honest about gerry ryan
I really hope it means the end of RTE as a state broadcaster and a tax and licence concern. I mean a licence to watch TV has always been weird. I read books and don’t get taxed for that. Time to cut them off and let them privatise so they can play market rules as they appear to wish for.
Nothing will happen.
Business as usual.
They just need to weather the storm.
@Alan Leahy: Spot on Alan. The politicians will tell the people that we just didn’t understand what happened in RTE and we have to move on from it.
That’s how things roll in D4.
The licence fee is done for. Anyone they were still managing to swindle or bully into paying won’t after this.
All top salaries paid for by tax payers should be in the public domain.
Transparency keeps us all honest.
TV license bye bye.
Cars, which Thomas swans around in, paid by RTÉ and ultimately the taxpayer, she is never out of her new car, absolutely wrong.
Seems to me the other media organisations, the so-called ‘independent’ ones are lining up to kick RTE while they’re down (and yes they have messaged up for sure): also FFG seem keen to sack and replace them all before the next election: we should be careful not to have the lot of them replaced with FFG friendly sorts
It means it’ll hopefully no longer be the gravy train it was,needs to be fully privatised or abolished altogether nothing in between,people have had enough of this especially seeing the answers those cabbages we’re giving when questioned, it’s in no way acceptable.
All the tunnels are.lined with tinfoil. There is enough to stretch from here to Jupiter and back.
Hopefully it’s the end of RTE as we know it. Donnybrook must be sold and the station relocated near Maynooth. It’s outrageous that our “stars” are paid 400% more than their Danish equivalents…I feel the low profile people who do the good work, especially in radio, must feel very put out by the revelations. Let the shakeup begin.
RTE needs change at the top for sure. But if you think that the likes of Virgin TV, The BBC, or god forbid News Talk on the radio are going to provide the Irish relevant content or promote Irish culture you are delusional. All the usual trolls calling it west Brit are laughable. The most cultural you can expect from Virgin Tv is the friggin Kardashians. The BBC begrudgingly show GAA in the north to keep the “taigs” quiet. Cop on, stupid moves were made by people full of their own importance but if you think the commercial channels will be a good replacement you are wrong!
@Seamus Dunne: Meanwhile on RTE we are overloaded with episodes of Heartbeat, Tipping Point, Poirot and Judge Judy. Over and over and over again.
Riviting television for sure Seamus.
@Seamus Dunne: Arts and culture should still be funded, but it’s unjustifiable to be forced by law to pay for the other content. I would include news, but like all news organisations, the news they broadcast is clouded by their own biases and opinions.
@David Corrigan:
i dont think RTE show judge judy
Ireland’s Unitary System is the cause of all the current problem coupled with “Super” expensive central government structure, and a highly inflated currency and small population. Homeless crisis is nowhere near my country which is #1 on the planet which will take Ireland thousands of years to surpass (funny enough I never saw a rough sleeper in Nigeria in the 29 years I am alive- we have shanty and slum and abandoned buildings which people can live in without any consequences). Ireland also have insane strict laws and regulation, Road Tax, Income Tax, Sky high VAT rate, TV licenses, Fines and Legal cases for things like Seatbelt, Litters, Urinating in Public etc. Lastly you guys love copying everything from the island across the irish sea.
@Basit Saliu: Do you need a lift to the airport buddy?
The government saying it will split RTE into two entities which means twice the salaries, twice the costs, and twice the corruption.
@Bat Collins:
back in 2008 mark wahlberg was in a movie about cops and drug dealers etc
he searches a dealer and they a huge ball of money on him
“ya want me to double your money for you???”
wahlberg tears the money in half
“There .. its doubled”
Real pity that Ryan does not come before Dail and man up!
… to the dustbin of history
@David Corrigan: I am not even in your country mate, I am in my own country which everyone say is the worst on the planet.
@Basit Saliu: they arent far wrong there
Spartacus Ireland: Apart from RTE, TG4, and Virgin Media One/Two/Three/Four what other networks are based in Ireland? Please dont say Sky because it carries many channels from everywhere in the World (i.e. BEN which is owned by a Nigerian business in the UK for Nigerian Diaspora) and Sky is the only distributor of channels in Ireland (Here we have DSTV, GOTV, StarTimes, African Magic, ShowMax, and the new unnamed company that will be co-owned by US-based Comcast and South Africa-based Multichoice). Even in Banking you guys only have BoI and AIB. Here we have Zenith, GTB, Union Bank, Wema, Polaris, Access, UBA with over 100 more with their branches, subsidiaries and systems. To be fair Nigeria currently with an estimated populated of ~300 million (~700 million in 2100; 8 million babies born every 365 days like lol) and a landmass bigger than all of Southern Europe or France and Germany combined (you can fit Spain and Portugal perfectly into the country; you can drive 6 hours or even 8 hours and you still be in one of the 36 states) cannot be company to Ireland plus we have insane level of corruption, Boko Haram, and separatism- if all 3 are eradicated, Nigeria will literally be the greatest country and most advance on the planet.
N O T H I N G
@Willie Marty: It could be true and it could be lies…Like They say “The less you know the better” and also “Dont judge the books by it cover” you have to live in the country for years even decades to know (I was born and lived in Nigeria for the first 14 years of my life and then 14 years in Ireland my family and ancestors are aboriginals of this nation called Nigeria; if not for my mum I wont even leave the Nigerian soil tankless of know a country called Ireland). Yes the corruption is high (but now we know it a global phenomenon), and Boko Haram have seize to exist Thank God. Nigeria was the first country in the world to eradicate Ebola, and the only country in the “Top 20 most populated country in the world” to eradicate Covid 19 in fact when I came in 2021 life was so normal you wont think there is a global pandemic (I came with my Mum for my Dad’s final burial). Nigerians mainly emigrate just for two things: Education and Green pasture (the latter is seen with every other nationalities including Aboriginal Irish people) but now it looks like the world is deglobalizing and every country for itself which began with US President Donald Trump but like they also say “No man is an Island”.
Bloody hell the over reaction to this “scandal” has been ridiculous. OK yeah, wrong was done, but it’s not like Tubridy was dodging taxes or anything.
Tell me, how many people calling for his head would kick up a fuss if they got a bit of extra salary that wasn’t reported by their companies’ accountants to their shareholders?
N O T H I N G.
@Spartacus Ireland: Apart from RTE, TG4, and Virgin Media One/Two/Three/Four what other networks are based in Ireland? Please dont say Sky because it carries many channels from everywhere in the World (i.e. BEN which is owned by a Nigerian business in the UK for Nigerian Diaspora) and Sky is the only distributor of channels in Ireland (Here we have DSTV, GOTV, StarTimes, African Magic, ShowMax, and the new unnamed company that will be co-owned by US-based Comcast and South Africa-based Multichoice). Even in Banking you guys only have BoI and AIB. Here we have Zenith, GTB, Union Bank, Wema, Polaris, Access, UBA with over 100 more with their branches, subsidiaries and systems. To be fair Nigeria currently with an estimated populated of ~300 million (~700 million in 2100; 8 million babies born every 365 days like lol) and a landmass bigger than all of Southern Europe or France and Germany combined (you can fit Spain and Portugal perfectly into the country; you can drive 6 hours or even 8 hours and you still be in one of the 36 states) cannot be company to Ireland plus we have insane level of corruption, Boko Haram, and separatism- if all 3 are eradicated, Nigeria will literally be the greatest country and most advance on the planet.
End it now.
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