The bushcraft and survival expert Ray Mears was asked about his favourite type of house-building.
The Athlumney Abbey estate in Navan, Co Meath, has featured several times in the annual Pride of Place Awards, where quite stringent judging criteria apply.
With its casement windows, external shutters and painted timber bargeboards, Bunker Lodge may look a little incongruous in its neighbourhood, which is the townland of Doonmore, near Doonbeg in Clare.
A choice of four properties offering two-bed living in Dublin.
A selection of four very different properties featuring period features and modern design in the Faithful County of Offaly.
It's not easy to keep a kitchen garden when you have horses. The horses will eat all your apples straight off the tree, munch their way through your chamomile and take their pick of your...
Finding a home with direct beach access in Dublin is something of an achievement, but locating one with two different powder-sandy strands within a short stroll of your door, is extra special.
When I told my friends I was kitting my home out according to the principles of building biology,...
By the time the famous amateur Irish golfer Joe Carr's competitive playing career ended at Lahinch in 1969, JB - as he was also known - had won...
What is it? No3 Moss Cottages stands in a row of mill workers cottages constructed in 1900. On the Enniskerry Road in a part of Dublin 18 which is...
These four properties come with the added attraction of being close to the one of Dublin's most popular swimming spots - the Forty Foot.
You could almost follow your nose to No4A Richmond Row in Portobello, Dublin 8. It's a conjoined neighbour of The Bretzel Bakery at Lennox Street, being attached to the back of...
A selection of properties currently on the market and available to view.
Seafield House, a spectacular 18th-century Palladian manor on 80 acres in Donabate, Co Dublin, has been lingering on the market since May of last year, waiting for Croesus to come along and fall...
A choice of four properties which are due to go for auction.
A selection of four properties currently on the market in Dublin 11.
When it came to making the film of John Banville's 2005 Man Booker prize-winning novel, The Sea,...
When it comes to reeling in wealthy downsizers and trader-uppers alike, there's a certain type of house in Dublin's inner suburbs virtually guaranteed to...
Here in Ireland we have plenty of Neo Tudors from the Edwardian era, with their red bricks, stained glass and fanned beams. And because we liked...
From medieval times, the FitzGeralds were such prominent aristocrat players in a country of tangled and bloody politics, that they could have...
If you're open to the idea of buying an listed building that needs some work, this might be the one of you:
AFTER her wedding in the 1990s the then Dublin based upmarket interior designer Angie Doyle dreamed of moving to the country to bring up...
Thatched in Oughterard
Like many homeowners who have taken advantage of the SEAI's Deep Retrofit scheme, Henk Van...
The vendor of No 43 Anglesea Road has been in residence for 32 years. "I'm part of the road," he jokes. "Shortly after we moved in, we started up the residents' association - and I've been trying...
Last Monday, the Government announced that 500,000 homes were to be retrofitted in an effort to reduce carbon emissions and drag our housing stock into the fossil-free age. But what exactly...
Charm, that's what it is all about. A simple word meaning so much. We're not in the realm of a little bracelet ornament, nor in the orbit of the...
TELEVISION presenter Lorraine Keane says her Monkstown home has attracted plenty of interest - and reckons expats living in Britain are interested because of Brexit.
The gripping mini-series Chernobyl, which charts how a safety test at the nuclear power plant went catastrophically wrong in 1986 and how the...
A choice of four impressive properties currently on the market in Co Tipperary.
A selection of four properties currently for sale on South Circular Road.
Broomfield House in Malahide, Co Dublin, along with its outbuildings, was demolished almost 20 years ago to make way for the Galtrim Grange development.
A choice of four impressive red-brick properties currently on the market in Dublin 3.
A selection of properties currently on the market and available to view.
The see-saw power politics of Tudor/Stuart era England dictated that even a regent could lose his or her head at any time. What's more, those...
Royal Terrace and Clarinda and Crosthwaite Parks date back to the 1850s when architect John Skipton Mulvany was putting his mark on Dun Laoghaire...
The travel writer Dervla Murphy is renowned for her gumption, among other things. As a child in the 1930s, she moved with her parents into a Georgian house now known as Westview, at the South...
What is it? A former Dublin Corporation home at 71 Annamoe Drive in Cabra, Dublin 7. The houses constructed by Dublin Corporation in its original home building drive through the 1930s and 1940s...
If you have noticed a certain ubiquity to the interiors of houses for sale these days, that's down to the - relatively new - phenomenon of staging.
PR woman Lynn Hunter, founder and director of Hunter Communications, bought her Baldoyle...
Tahila Cove Country House near Sneem in Co Kerry stands on a site of 1.9 acres with views over Kenmare Bay, Rossmore Island, the Caha Mountains and the Beara Peninsula.
Morehampton Lane is the first turn to the left off Herbert Park as you drive down from the traffic lights at the crossroads with Morehampton Road.
There's a lingering scene in the film, Batman and Robin, where the latest svelte and smouldering Batmobile is introduced as it spins on a rotating...
The last of your adult kids has left home, you're selling up and have just discovered what a great big pain downsizing is. So imagine how much more complicated it gets if you're a globally...
Sometimes it takes an artistic mind to see beauty where others see functionality. In the case of Studio Skellig in Kerry, it was not only one...
A choice of four very different properties currently on the market in Clondalkin.
Belmont Square and Park in Dublin 5 take their name from Belmont House, which still stands and is now the home of the Capuchin Friary, the friars being among the friendly neighbours in this...
These four canal-side properties contain loads of character in addition to a charming setting.
Among the recent visitors to Castletore, a dormer bungalow at Glencormack near Kilmacanogue in Co Wicklow, has been a woodpecker, one of 28 different species of bird that have dropped by...
A selection of properties currently on the market and available to view.
