A choice of four properties currently on the market in sought-after Dundrum.
Glenveagh Cluain Adain, a development of two-, three- and four-bed homes which were launched off plans last weekend, is the first new scheme to come on the market on the northern side of...
Small scale developing - that is buying houses in poor condition to refurbish them and sell them for a profit sounds like a tempting prospect to anyone with an eye for good design who likes perusing interiors magazines and watching property shows on television. The stresses and strains that home...
There are two gate lodges to Dromana House, the 17th-century mansion and estate on the eastern bank of the Blackwater near Villierstown, Co Waterford.
A choice of four properties offering stunning harbour views.
With the hipster haven of Dublin 8 in the midst of a regeneration, it's no surprise the Liberties has become the postcode-du-jour for investors and owner-occupiers, who helped push up prices by as much as 15% last year.
When Kieran Roughan bought 198 Carrow Road in Drimnagh in October 2005, he spent six cold months in the derelict, uninsulated two-bed end-of-terrace house.
Number 73 Stepaside Park in Dublin 18 is a three-bedroom house at present, but it has full planning permission for a first-floor extension above the kitchen.
A selection of four properties on the market in north Dublin which could be yours for less than €300,000.
A penthouse at Lansdowne Place, a high-end pavilions-style apartment development on the corner of Lansdowne Road and Shelbourne Road in Ballsbridge, is poised to break Irish records after...
Until the 1930s, when house building first began in Walkinstown, the area was one steeped in agriculture. Indeed, the name of the Dublin suburb is a corruption of Wilkinstown, a townland named after Wilkins, a tenant farmer who lived in the area in the 15th century.
Enderly, the first new development to be built in Dalkey in more than a decade, has become the first new residential scheme in the country in about 10 years to have three houses fetch a sales...
Broadlands, a scheme of 28 family homes directly across the road from Killiney Golf Club, has appealed to house-hunters seeking to downsize from vast piles in Killiney, Dalkey and Foxrock to an energy-efficient new-build in the affluent south Dublin suburb.
If your baby was teething badly back in the 1890s, then the doctor would prescribe something like Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for infants with plenty...
Until very recently, the otherwise unremarkable village of Killenard in Co Laois had the distinction of being the home of the honorary Colombian...
Washington Park, a cul-de-sac estate running north from Butterfield Avenue towards the River Dodder in Dublin 14, was built in the 1950s.
If you are in the market for a holiday home, then here is a selction of four currently on the market.
A choice of four competitively priced properties on the market in Drumcondra.
Q. My mother has left me her house in its entirety, a fact I only discovered after she died and which has upset both me and my sister, who expected it to be shared equally. The date of the will...
'The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record," wrote author James C Scott, political scientist and...
A selection of properties currently on the market and available to view.
Aside from the guaranteed 'Back to the Madness!' headlines, the absolute best bit for media covering a queue of hopefuls huddled at a new home scheme, is that the subjects stay put. They...
The property boom got into its stride properly in Dublin in the mid 1990s when religious orders and farm owners, the last of the big suburban land owners in the city, began selling up vast swathes of green field sites in prime locations to developers.
According to the Property Price Register, 11 Sandymount Court in Dublin 4 last sold in January 2017 for €635,000.
The owners of Headford House, at the foot of Crott Mountain in Co Mayo, have a dolmen in their garden. It fits in beautifully with the stark, rocky landscape all about, and it is made all the more enjoyable by the likelihood that there's nobody buried under it.
In a tradition of small building on a grand scale, Ireland once had 10,000 gate lodges. This tradition started out with stout medieval castle gate houses and ended with tiny decorative cottages...
Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic 1911 children's novel, The Secret Garden, tells the story of Mary Lennox, a spoiled 10-year-old girl born in India...
Think outside the box with two spacious 19th Century homes.
Five years ago I was doing what everyone else my age was doing and renting. I was in a one-bed apartment in Grand Canal Dock near where I...
Between 1968 and 1998, almost everyone who lived in Ireland was affected by "The Troubles". During these 30 years, armed conflict and political deadlock in the North tore communities and families apart. Thousands died, including almost 2,000 civilians, and tens of thousands were injured. It...
Twelve years on from when it was first built, architect Mark Stephens' home in the foothills of the Ox Mountains in Foxford, Co Mayo still attracts...
A choice of four properties currently on the market in popular Glasnevin.
The La Touche family built Bellevue House in Delgany in 1754 and afterwards couldn't stop adding to it. For instance, during the 19th century they put on a conservatory. Not just any conservatory though, but a 264 ft-long curved affair that cost them £4,000 and looks quite the curiosity on old...
These four properties represent good value and come with the added benefit of their own stables.
The Thicket is a cul-de-sac off Hainault Road in Foxrock, Dublin 18, and its residents are in august company. The garden of 9 The Thicket backs onto the extensive grounds of Lis-na-Carrig, one of Foxrock's most illustrious trophy homes, and a couple of hundred metres away is Cooldrinagh,...
Enjoy some bungalow bliss in these four properties on the market in Dublin 18.
What is it? The Mews is tucked away off Stirling Park on Orwell Road in Rathgar, D6, and was originally the gate lodge to one of the big houses in the area. The owner understands that the...
How do architects live? Róisín Caribine finds out
As far as architects around the world are concerned, the Venice Architecture Biennale is widely regarded as the single most important...
Home to ODOS founder and creative director David O'Shea, his wife Sen and teenage son Miles this multi-level super mews in Portobello, Dublin...
'I've got this dead Irish streak of laziness in me," remarked the novelist Catherine Gaskin on the BBC's Desert Island Discs back in 1980. It was a...
Annesley Place in Dublin's North Strand must have been a malodorous and unhealthy place back in the 19th century.
'We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us,' said Britain's Winston Churchill, and his...
Within about a decade of being built, Ellesmere Avenue off the North Circular Road in Dublin 7 is likely to have become the scene of a certain amount of neighbourly unpleasantness.
A choice of four properties on the market in the Dublin which could be yours for around the €1 million mark.
Once upon a time, there was only one Mishells House in the townland of Mishells, near Bandon in Co Cork. Now there appear to be two.
If you fancy living in the garden county, then here are four cottages in Co Wicklow which are on the market.
There may be many reasons for setting up home in Malahide, in north Co Dublin, but sailing is undoubtedly one of them.
A choice of four impressive properties currently for sale in the Malahide area.
The Hazel Brook Square development in Churchtown, Dublin 14, takes its name from HB ice cream, formerly made at a factory on the site and now owned by Unilever.
