FOR those seeking the very grandest and largest new home within commuting distance of the capital, Mountrush in Ardee, Co Louth, spans 12,464 sq ft - likely making it the most substantial new property on the market in Ireland today.
Latent demand for last weekend's launch of the second phase of Castle Farm outside Naas built up after prospective buyers missed out when the development's first tranche sold out quickly in...
Windswept coastlines and deserted beaches with waves crashing on rocks are always popular vistas for buyers and at Barnageeragh Cove in Skerries, Co Dublin, they'll get it in spades.
First-time buyers seeking more bang for their buck in the commuter belt dominated viewings during the second release of homes at Bellingsfield, the new development that Ballymore Group is building.
After Ballymore Group finished building 154 homes at Royal Canal Park, which is situated between Ashtown and Cabra, it moved onto a new section called Camden, a name that hints at a funkier, more urban vibe than the houses at its preceding scheme.
The Edwardian-style new homes at Citywest Village, with their brick arches, granite windowsills and slate roofs, are all inspired by the traditional full red-brick streetscapes of old Dublin villages such...
Park Developments is behind Hamilton Park, a Castleknock scheme just off the Carpenterstown Road.
For some two decades, Furness House, a 30-room Georgian manor near Johnstown village in Co Kildare, was the home of Patrick Guinness, a direct descendant of Arthur Guinness, the 18th-century...
Downsizers with a penchant for Edwardian red-bricks but none of the maintenance headaches are the target market for Vernon Mews, a new development in Clontarf with period-style...
My 75-year-old-father has a plaque on his wall that says "old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance". The US playwright David Mamet is generally held responsible for that old chestnut.
Cloister Green in Blackrock, Co Dublin, was built on the spreading grounds of the old Carysfort Park Convent of Mercy. Nowadays that's the site of the UCD Graduate School of Business, where...
Locals consider Dungriffin Road to be one of Howth's finest, situated halfway between the village and the summit, lending a 'best of both worlds' feel to the houses located here. It's a seven- or eight-minute walk down to the harbour and village, while in the other direction there's easy...
House-hunters in the capital, look away now. Even if property price inflation is showing signs of slowing down, even if there are price-drops in some postcodes, the chances of securing a waterfront property in excellent condition on 0.9 acres of land anywhere in Dublin for less than a million will...
There's no doubting the popular draw and screen presence of telly architect Dermot Bannon as the lynchpin presenter of his RTE hit show Room to...
Shauna Burke bought a five-bedroom home in Rathcoole, Co Dublin, for €485,000.
Older Dubliners may remember 'The Big Tree' which once stood in the middle of the main road between the city and Bray, at Loughlinstown.
A choice of three bungalows currently on the market in the Royal County.
As a child playing on Beechwood Avenue in Ranelagh in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Maureen FitzSimons would boast to friends that when she...
'A huge three-storey party house that no one knows about" - this rather unusual brief was put to leading architect Peter Owens of Tyler Owens at the height of the Celtic Tiger in 2007. It came with a site...
A selection of four properties currently on the market in Malahide.
The unorthodox health kicks of a starchy German prince, the compliance of his adoring monarch wife, the arrival of the steam train, and the...
A selection of four properties on the market in sought-after Glenageary.
Gwendoline Stacpoole, the pioneering Irish amateur archaeologist, proved you don't have to travel the world to make big breakthroughs - Gwenny...
Those trading down from the big Victorian and Edwardian homes in Dublin’s central suburbs are finding a limited fare of suitable properties...
'This AGA," says Claire Boland, indicating the four-oven kerosene-fired range that has been lit in the past week, as the chill of autumn started to...
The new(ish) church of St Anthony in Clontarf, Dublin 3, was built in 1975 at a cost of £172,000. That's not a sum that would get you far in the neighbourhood of Clontarf these days.
With the Land War at its height in 1880, the landed classes united to protect their assets by establishing the Property Defence Association of Ireland. Its aim was to frustrate the campaigns of the Land League and to assist landlords who'd been boycotted by local communities.
A choice of four properties currently on the market in Cavan, a county renowned for its abundance of lakes.
A striking manifestation of the new money now spilling in to a fast rejuvenating Rathmines is this pair of confident, bold and utterly contemporary semis just completed off Blackberry Lane,...
This year's Enniskerry Festival gets into full swing next weekend, and features a concert on Friday...
At the start of this year, the international trend and interiors website Houzz published its list of...
A selection of four properties in Dublin 18 which come with four bedrooms.
A choice of four well-positioned south Dublin homes which could be yours for under €500,000.
Clontarf takes its name from the Irish Cluain Tarbh, meaning the 'meadow of the bull,' because it was said the waves of the sea sounded like the bellowing of said beast. Today the bull is...
Dermot Bannon has revealed he will do "something very basic" regarding the renovation of his new...
'There's never an awkward moment when she's around," Chara Nagle's partner, Alan Crosbie, laughs. "She didn't so much kiss the Blarney Stone as give it a good snog."
Sales gurus regularly claim their bounties must be seen to be believed, but one home on the rental market in south Dublin certainly lives up to the billing.
Four properties in north Mayo offering an unrivalled location close to the Wild Atlantic Way.
Competition has always been fierce for red-brick period homes in Dublin 9 with Victorian and Edwardian detail, family-sized dimensions and a location within walking distance of the city centre. On top of this, they are particularly sought after by professionals who hail from the midlands and...
Set amid tranquil orchards, rose gardens and 41 acres of rolling pastureland grazed by herds of contented cattle, Belfield House in Kilpedder,...
'I love glass boxes," says the current owner of Innisfree, who was born and raised in Ballycotton, "so, when I found the site, I knew that I...
That one bricked up window in the upper front corner of No 10 Prince Edward Terrace Lower dates from the time of the dreaded Window Tax. Until...
Although it was built only in 1991, Thornbrook, near Kilmeaden in Co Waterford, looks as if it's been part of the landscape for generations.
Tom Hanks is a famous typewriter anorak. In 2013, the Oscar-winning actor wrote in the New York Times that there are three reasons for owning a vintage manual typewriter, "and none of them are ease or speed".
A selection of four properties of distinction currently available to buy in Rathfarnham.
Many a house-hunter with a penchant for ecclesiastical architecture has bought a redundant church to make it the subject of a heavenly...
