A selction of four properties available to buy in Rathfarnham, which are ideal family homes.
Suddenly spiralling builders' prices through the last six months in particular, have been having a...
The remarkable home of artist Robert Ballagh wowed us at Christmas courtesy of RTÉ's Celebrity Home of the Year. The programme showed how the artist had taken three adjoining identikit period...
A former embassy, a seaside castellated mansion with its own private harbour, and a former orphanage were among Ireland's most expensive homes.
Two into one does go…swimmingly; as proven by The Cottages at Fintra, in Co Donegal, a house that has two of everything, because it was originally two homes.
These four impressive properties will cost you in the region of €1 million.
A choice of four stand-out properties currently on the market in Co Meath.
Part of the Fleurville estate in Blackrock, Co Dublin, is built on the site of an old nursery marked on the first-edition Ordnance Survey map.
Although they're growing in popularity internationally, green roofs have not really caught on in Ireland. Here they're thought of, rightly or wrongly, as either too expensive or demanding...
Ordnance survey maps from the 19th century show a cottage in the townland of Clonsast Lower, Co Kildare, as 'Spinning Wheel'.
The four southside homes offer loads of character associated with mews homes.
A selection of properties currently on the market and available to view.
For the elder lemons of Dublin who like talking competitively about poverty, the number of...
On an online archive, I stumble across a black-and-white school photo dated 1982/1983. Little seven-year-old me is smirking at the camera and...
Llandaff Terrace lies on the left-hand side of the Merrion Road as you drive along the Rock Road that leads from Blackrock towards Dublin city centre, just past the Tara Towers hotel.
It's got an underground Playboy Mansion-style swimming pool grotto, saunas, a steam room, a...
While An Culu is a thoroughly modern take on a fantasy neo-Gothic castle, Knockdrin Castle in Co Westmeath is the real early Victorian deal, from...
The Swan Shopping Centre in Rathmines, Dublin 6, has come on a lot since the days when there was almost nothing in it but a Dunnes Stores, an...
A choice of four properties on the market in the popular Harold's Cross area.
A choice of four properties offer close proximity to Malahide and Portmarnock.
Castle Park this weekend becomes the first new development in a decade to launch in the border county of Monaghan, where the recovery in the property market lagged other counties after the...
Cork City rents are now 29pc higher than their Celtic Tiger peak, according to a Daft.ie report published earlier this month. With average...
Glenveagh Taylor Hill, a new development in the north Co Dublin seaside town of Balbriggan, is named after the Taylor family, who owned the town's Ardgillan Castle for more than 200 years,...
If there's one thing we can count on, it's the dark. The year is spiralling down towards its shortest day and, whatever else the weather has to throw at us, there will be long, dark nights ahead. It's a time of year when the home needs all the cheering up that it can get.
Back in 2010, interior designer Suzie McAdam and her husband purchased 12a Ardagh Avenue in...
Rathgar has steadfastly remained one of south Dublin's most desirable addresses. With one of the priciest postcodes in town, most of its period...
The centrepiece of the 112-ac Cabinteely Park is the eponymous 18th-century Cabinteely House, which was once home to Joe McGrath of the Irish Hospitals' Sweepstakes, the controversial lottery that helped fund Irish hospitals for half a century.
Tourism has always been big business in Kenmare, Co Kerry, but it wasn't immune to the hard times that landed on us all when the Celtic Tiger came to an end.
Pretty though it is, the village of Shannon Harbour, where the Grand Canal meets the River Shannon in County Offaly, has a sad sight at the heart of it.
It would be a waste not to take up tennis if you lived at 65 Barclay Court in Blackrock, Co Dublin. It's not much more than 100 metres from the entrance to Carraig Tennis club, where...
Design features in older homes were sometimes deployed for unexpected purposes which could surprise us today. Until now you might have reasonably considered that the recessed porches appearing in Dublin homes from the 1930s were put there just to provide a dry space to shake your...
These four properties come with the added bonus of close proximity to the M50.
Could you endure living in a garage for three years while the house of your dreams was being built? Well, that is exactly what committed couple Joseph and Pamela Hayes did, along with their five...
A linden is an older name for a lime fruit and it pops up here and there in street names in parts of south Dublin.
Cottages are eternally romantic, particularly when they are characterful period homes in a scheme which overlooks a river filled with wildlife.
You might think there's only so much you can do with a suburban garden. Take a flat, geometric shape, smother it in lawn seed, throw in a bit of hedging and an ornamental cherry or two, and...
Have you ever considered buying a hot tub? A bit of unadulterated luxury that would, for a brief outdoor soak with a flute of bubbly in hand, place you momentarily in the realms of the pampered private jet set.
A choice of four two-bed properties currently on the market in Dublin 8.
These four northside properties could be yours for under €400,000.
Heidelberg, at Ardilea in Clonskeagh, Dublin 14, is part of that warren of housing estates south-west of UCD that are all named after prestigious universities.
An indoor swimming pool is a luxury you might expect to find only in a multimillion luxury pad on its own grounds - not exactly something you'd think would turn up at an estate house in a Dublin...
From the roar of motor racing at Mondello to the peace and quiet of sleepy Killenard in Co Laois, Formula Vee racing champions, Ray and Paula Moore, have long been used to a dual-speed...
A tiny rural cottage placed for sale at Kealderra in East Clare, that was once home to Ireland's oldest man, has been opened up for the first time in...
These four Dublin houses come with the addition of a garden room.
Compositors, those masters of a trade that has now been all but annihilated by digital printing, tended to be gentlemanly types. They were modest,...
A choice of four properties which can be yours for under €500,000 in Dublin 4.
Back in 1995, when Hoganswood House was built on the outskirts of Clane, Co Kildare, the place was a very small town.
A choice of four properties currently on the market in Templeogue.
It may have acquired a newish sort of look, but in fact Marsh Farm House, at Mooretown, Co Louth, is classic - and authentic - Victoriana. It was built about 1860 according to the National Inventory...
From 1950s and 1960s semis to a period Victorian and a 1930s bungalow, Dublin couple Lorraine and Rob Greenhalgh have lived in all sorts of houses.
