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Take a look inside Dublin's cheapest property – Is it worth €85,000? 

A mid Victorian cottage at 24 Rutland Cottages in Dublin 1 is the very last house available for sale for under €100,000 in Dublin.

Rambling redbrick Tardis in D8 spreads out to 1,076 sq ft 

Dublin 8 is famous for (among other things) its Tardises - those quaint houses that look tiny from the front and then sprawl away secretly out the back into a comfortable four figures of square...

Four on the market: Glebe houses 

These four impressive properties were once good enough for the local clergy and still retain many original features and also come with ample grounds.

Surrounding park and a rugby club provide privacy in the leafy suburbs with 

The neighbourhood around Cypress Downs in Templeogue, Dublin 6W, is certainly leafy. Despite its name, though, it's not notable for an...

Four on the market: Four city homes under €500k 

A choice of four properties currently on the market in Dublin for under €500,000.

Mammoth penthouse with views over Phoenix Park for €850k 

Dublin city council granted planning permission to builders Ardmore in 1997 to demolish Belleville House, near the Ashtown Gate of Phoenix Park in Dublin 7.

Up the walls with Dermot Bannon: His Drogheda renovation is up for sale 

'Yes I like it! I have to admit it! Dermot was right!"

On the market - a former bungalow transformed into a luxury mansion in €1m Celtic Tiger era revamp 

Long Acre is a ranch-style house in Enniskerry where everything has been turned on its head, to take maximum advantage of its hilltop position,...

Inside Bill Cullen's 43-room Kildare mansion on the market for €2m 

BILL Cullen and Jackie Lavin have put their magnificent 43-room mansion up for sale.

Inside the $13m Miami mansion ex-Ferrari star Eddie Irvine has bought... with plans to knock it down 

Former Ferrari driver Eddie Irvine has paid $13m (€11.8m) for the Miami waterfront home once...

My Favourite Room: Inside the Italian villa-style residence of an antiques dealer 

When one thinks of the consummate antique dealer, the image conjured up is that of someone buried in the bowels of dust-filled basements, hoping to...

In Pictures: House where Grand Designs inspired a software millionaire to go for broke in D14 

Has it really been 20 years since the ever earnest Kevin McCloud appeared on our screens in his first episode of Grand Designs?

Home-to-be: The pros and cons of buying a house that hasn't been built 

Buying a new house off-plan can be like buying a ready-made biscuit mix - it usually involves a lot of dough and, when it's ready, it looks just like all the other cookie-cutter houses lined up next to it in...

Colourful social history adds to charm of refurbished cottage 

Mixed marriages (as in marriages between Catholics and Protestants) were very uncommon in Ireland a century ago. Where they did occur, the Catholic partner was nearly always the woman.

Four on the market: in Raheny, Dublin 5 

A selection of four properties currently on the market in popular Raheny.

D15's Overlook wedged into a golfing paradise 

A Grand Design recently completed in the Strawberry Beds of Dublin is 'Overlook'. The Dublin 15 house last sold just over a year ago, in August 2018, for €943,000, according to the Property...

Chance for trophy pad restoration 

If you're looking for the grandest of Grand Design projects to work on to create a real wow factor abode then St Heliers, at Stillorgan Park in Blackrock, Co Dublin, is a very handsome and tall three-storey, 10-bedroomed Edwardian house built c. 1904 with some quite breathtaking red brick...

'No matter where you stand, the sea is in sight' - Grand Design in Dunmore East 

'If you do anything with commitment and passion, it will come good." Wise words from the great Jedi Master of property television, Kevin McCloud of...

Home truths: Why there's nothing wrong with being a 'property porn' addict 

As a teenager my obsession was cars. A regular little walking talking bible of automotive history and functional contemporary car knowledge I...

Painting the Irish with pigs in the parlour and satire 

Old paintings of rural Irish interiors are a window into the past. They show us how people lived, the furniture they used, their utensils, their clothes and their scant possessions. For historians, such...

Labourers' cottages with old-worlde chocolate-box charm 

Google has entered the fray on the housing crisis, with this newspaper revealing recently that the multi-national tech giant is prepared to subsidise housing here to ease the capital's...

Bang for your buck: A manor, castle and suites for a cool €1.95m 

If you had won this week's Lotto €3m plus jackpot and figured on spending €2m on a new abode (a million left over to play with!), just what sort of high-end house-hunting jaunt would you likely...

Refurbished cut-price four-bed right in the thick of things in Bray 

Bray became a popular seaside resort in the mid-19th century, with the extension of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway to the north Wicklow town in 1854.

Modernist five-bedroom home ready to tee off 

When the owner of 17 Glendine Court in Kilkenny wants to play a round of golf, he trundles his trolley out of the basement, walks down the cul de sac, through a gate to Kilkenny Golf Club - and...

D4 home of former retail boss hits market 

By the time that Tom and Catherine Rea bought their home on Anglesea Road in Ballsbridge, opposite St Mary's Church, 15 years ago, they were already veterans of the house-moving game.

4 of a kind... wheelchair accessible Dublin homes 

Refurbished in Ranelagh

Idyllic lakeside home set on 29 acres of Wexford woodland 

German architect Egon Winkens was born in 1928 and practised in Bonn before moving to California in 1959.

Meet the couple who tore their almost-new Meath home apart to make it perfect 

SUMMERSTREAM HOUSE Moy, Summerhill, Co Meath Asking price: €875,000 Agent: Loman Dempsey (046) 9484671

New England homestead: how Breda and Damien O'Neill built their American dream home from magazines 

Most of us have found our dream home at least once, maybe several times, in the pages of a...

Pair of Drumcondra semi-ds to tempt someone with big plans 

When No31 Drumcondra Road in Dublin 9 was built, its occupants could have stepped out of their front gardens and boarded a tram to get to the city centre.

Four on the market: Under €300k in Dublin 8 

A choice of four properties in Dublin 8 which could be yours for under €300,000.

Is this Ireland's most expensive one-bedroom apartment ever? 

'This home is NOT a hotel!" has long been a favoured rebuke of Irish parents - aimed at unruly offspring who turn up for meals when they feel like it, who throw their clothes on the floor, or...

Two schools of thought in Wicklow enclave for seclusion within reach 

There are not one but two international private boarding schools in the neighbourhood of Kilcroney, near Bray in Co Wicklow.

Four on the market: Dublin homes over 2,000 sq feet 

These four imposing properties come with a host of features and ample room.

Restorative qualities for a healthy stint in Dundrum 

Health tourism kicks from times past often seem odd in the modern age. For example "electric bath" resorts contained the early version of sun beds whereby huge electric heat lamps were...

Four on the market: in County Clare 

A choice of four properties currently on the market in the Banner County.

Cabin-style living with guest cottage in place of pilgrimage in Tipperary 

There are countless stories around the country of people being buried standing up, and it isn't as if anyone is ever going to try to prove it one way or the other.

Fix it up: A tired Regency at Mount Pleasant Square, D6 

What is it? A threadworn two-over-basement Regency terrace in one of the oldest locations in Ranelagh. Two interlinking receptions, a kitchen, a living room, three bedrooms and a bathroom.

Back at the ranch in Louth: Inside this €1.25m home set across 18.5 acres 

When Ryan and Kimberly Penn made the big move from Texas to Dublin, they felt like they were missing out on something and that something...

Hidden gems of the iKitchen: high tech appliances go beyond smart fridges 

It's a warm day. The children run in from the garden, help themselves to cereal and leave the milk on the countertop. Again! After an hour or...

Open house: Are we a nation of snoopers? 

Karen Mulvaney could not believe what she was seeing. She was viewing a prestigious Dublin property on behalf of a prospective buyer when she happened upon a woman - who was also at the...

Eco Beach - the seafront villa of Ireland's first internet guru 

Arguably Ireland's very first true internet guru was the former Longford county footballer and Hotpress music journalist Gerry McGovern. His pioneering commercial internet consultancy Nua, founded...

Romancing the stones 

In 1999, whilst out riding on horseback with her husband, interior designer and some-time retailer Shirley Connolly came across an 18th century former mill in the Naul in north County Dublin, along with an adjoining miller's house and surrounding land.

Four on the market: in Castleknock, D15 

A choice of four properties currently on the market in Castleknock.

Heaven scent at County Wexford's eco-friendly B2 rated family home 

Short of having a lavender farm of your very own, which admittedly would be the ideal, the next best thing must be to live downwind of one.

Four on the market: period houses in Co Meath 

These four period properties in Co Meath come with many original features and ample charm.

Take the chill off in Monkstown at upgraded and extended former 'Berg' 

Number 25 Ashton Park in Monkstown, Co Dublin, used to be what's colloquially known as a Berg, as in iceberg, because it had a BER of G - the lowest possible energy rating.

Four on the market: three-beds in Dublin 14 

A choice of four three-bed properties on the southside in Dublin 14.

New development in mature Foxrock channels 1940s and 1950s with 5 bed home on market for €1.69m 

When developers have been called upon to blend a new scheme into a mature area, they have variously gone for stylings that are Georgian,...

A solid granite hearth warms the generous spaces of Kildare 

Eamon O'Donoghue and his partner Liz Tunstead bought an old two-bedroom cottage in the townland of Laraghbryan in 2009.

From new houses in Kinsale to penthouses on Lansdowne Road 

Kinsale Manor, Kinsale, Co Cork