What will €299,000 buy in Kilkee and Co Wexford?
St Joseph's, Dunlicky Road, Kilkee, Co Clare
DNG O'Sullivan Hurley, €299,000
This
double-fronted, semidetached four-bedroom dormer bungalow
is on an elevated site 200m from the blue blag, horseshoe-shaped beach in the town of
Kilkee
. The bay-fronted
house
has a separate livingroom and kitchen, with two of its four bedrooms downstairs. It extends to 115sq m (1,237sq ft) and is in need of modernisation. A small yard at the back has pedestrian rear access.
Plus: Within skipping distance of the beach
Minus: The G Ber rating needs attention
Ballinvegga Farmhouse, Ballywilliam, New Ross, Co Wexford
Country
Ballinvegga Farmhouse, Ballywilliam, New Ross, Co Wexford
Liberty Blue, €295,000
This
four-bedroom, two-bathroom farmhouse
has a lovely country-home aesthetic. It has a broken-plan parquet-floor livingroom, leading through to a flagstone kitchen. There's a home office, wood-burning stove and bedrooms under the vaulted eaves, with low-set cottage windows. Built in the 1880s, this property was once home to Annie Power, the grandmother of Eamon Cleary, who bred the Cheltenham Champion Hurdle-winning mare named in her honour. It comes with 3.6 acres of land, haybarn and outbuildings.
Plus: A storied house with outbuildings to convert
Minus: Its F Ber rating will need improvement
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