Need space to grow your own? Or just want a small but perfectly formed garden? A new crop of houses offer good grounds for investment

FOXROCK:

€1.3M

BALLORNEY, on Gordon Avenue, Foxrock, is one of those pretty houses that abound in this leafy suburb. The three-bedroom detached house is new to the market through Lisney asking €1.3 million.

It measures 160sq m (1,722sq ft) and dates from the 1920s. The house needs refurbishment but, on the plus side, it’s surrounded by well-tended mature gardens with an abundance of trees creating a real sense of privacy. A stream bisects the garden, which is divided into areas of the lawn and shrubberies.

Inside, lots of light comes in through old-fashioned picture windows. There are two main reception rooms and a good-sized conservatory leading to the gardens.

A spacious family room also has patio doors to the garden and access to a big utility room.

The kitchen cum breakfast room is a reasonable size but new owners are likely to extend to create something more accommodating.

The first of the bedrooms is downstairs, with two large en suite bedrooms upstairs.

CAVAN

€169,000

HIDDEN AWAY in the Cavan countryside is this restored farmhouse set on over a third of an acre of grounds landscaped by its designer owner.

Located at Drumestagh, near Ballyjamesduff and 12km from Virginia, the three-bedroom house has been restored with care and decorated in a fashionably minimalist style that is refreshing.

There are also two reception rooms. The grounds include an orchard, a kitchen garden and a herb garden.

The house is for sale through Sherry FitzGerald Farrelly, asking €169,000.

RATHMICHAEL

€1.35M

SCHEDULED FOR auction through Daphne L Kaye Associates on June 16th, Kilsallagh on Ballybride Road in Rathmichael, Co Dublin, is a striking modern bungalow surrounded by 1.14 acres of grounds. The advised minimum value (AMV) is €1.35 million.

The long low house is hidden from view from the road, tucked away up a sweeping tree-lined laneway. Creeper-clad, the bungalow (195sq m/2,100sq ft) was designed to catch the sun all day long through its floor-to-ceiling windows.

The grounds include rolling lawns, a flourishing orchard, a cultivated vegetable patch and a sizeable swimming pool – empty at present – from which there are views of Carrickgollogan Hill.

Kilsallagh will be on view on Saturday afternoon from 12.30pm to 2.30pm.

CORK

€1.5M

A 76-ACRE mini-estate with a restored period house at its centre is on offer at Ballyholley near Fermoy in Co Cork.

Kylenahoura House is for sale through Sherry FitzGerald O’Donovan for €1.5 million.

It is a lavishly refurbished four-bedroom house, originally built for Lord Listowel as a shooting lodge.

It now sports a swimming pool complex, stables and outbuildings.

Landscaped gardens surrounding the house give way to orchards, grassland and 35 acres of woodland with its own population of deer.

RATHCOOLE

 €1.5M

DUNARD  at Redgap, Rathcoole is a rambling five-bed house set on 1.33 acres of landscaped gardens that are made exceptionally private by a belt of mature trees.

The house is on the market at €1.5 million through a new estate agency, Guardian.

It was previously owned by a member of the Wolfe Tones and has great entertainment space, with a large livingroom, games room and bar, as well as a superb conservatory and an indoor swimming pool.

SANDYCOVE

€1.45M

INGLESIDE on Sandycove Road, just outside Glasthule, is an attractive four-bedroom house for sale through Savills. It is meticulously renovated, inside and out.

To the rear is a landscaped garden with views over neighbouring gardens towards the sea. Ingleside sits between two short terraces and is set back from the road, with off-street parking for several cars.

The house has a good-sized drawingroom to the front but most of the living goes on at the back of the house where the kitchen and the adjoining family room have French doors to the garden.

The first floor has four bedrooms and there’s a large attic room with deep storage.