By Irishexaminer.com,Trish Dromey

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Lofty living with a roof terrace garden and views of the Dublin Mountains is on offer at this two bed penthouse apartment at 60 Botanic Hall, Addison Park, Glasnevin, Dublin 11.

Listing it with a guide of €695,000, Martin Doyle of Sherry FitzGerald Drumcondra describes it as fabulous. “It’s a stylishly presented property with high ceilings and lots of glazing and which has a roof terrace garden on three sides with unobstructed views.”

Guiding at €695,000, the fourth floor property is one of just a small number of penthouse apartments in Botanic Hall with such a large roof terrace.

It’s 113 sq metres of accommodation includes a sunroom/dining area with three glazed walls which offer the occupants views of the roof garden and out across the city rooftops.. Adjoining it is an open plan kitchen/living area, partly divided by a wall, which has contemporary white gloss units in the kitchen and a maple floored living space with bookshelves.

There’s also a bathroom and two bedrooms ( one en suite) with patio doors. Laid out in slabs and gravel sections, the terrace has a great many planters with trees, shrubs and includes a row of four, by the sunroom wall, filled with lavender.

Botanic Hall, is located within walking distance of local shops and cafes and also of the Botanic Gardens and Glasnevin Cemetery.

VERDICT: Won’t suit buyers with children or a fear of heights – but will make a very stylish home for those who don’t.

In addition to being stylish, spacious and scenic, Lackendarra Larches at Ballinamult near Dungarvan is extremely energy efficient – being one of only a small percentage of houses in the country to have achieved a coveted A1 BER rating.

“The owners who built the property in 2019 have installed a SVP system with 20 panels on the garage roof, including west facing ones and ten east facing ones – as well as a five kw Battery, reveals Cormac Curran of Sherry FitzGerald Reynolds.

Quoting a guide of €695,000, he says Lackendarra Larches is a high spec modern home with a little over 200 sq metres of living space and 2. 8 acres of well-tended lawned gardens.

Rooms with a view of the Comeragh Mountains include a modern sitting room which has a large feature window and a marble fireplace with a stove. Alongside it a spacious kitchen/diner with patio doors and a stylish contemporary kitchen with handleless grey units and a large island unit

The partially stone clad dormer property also has a utility, a bathroom and four bedrooms including a spacious en suite one at the rear.

Accessed by electric gates and a long driveway, the house has an expanse of lawns and a small area at the side planted with larch trees. Behind it is a lofted double garage with a double array of solar panels.

Lackendarra Larches is located 15 km from Dungarvan and within an hour’s drive from Waterford city.

VERDICT: Sure to be toasty when winter comes.

While some home owners work on bringing the outdoors inside, the owners of this detached four No 8 Corrigeene, Ballinaboola put a bit of effort into bringing the indoors out.

On the huge vitrified porcelain patio in the back garden they have created both a seating area and a dining area and built a raised fireplace with a herringbone clay insert.

Sonia Pallas of Sherry FitzGerald Radford says both the house (bought new by the owners in 2008) and the garden have been finished to a high standard. It’s a stylish home with timber panelled walls, French oak and walnut flooring on the ground floor and a kitchen with black granite worktops and quartz island unit,’’ she reveals.

Inside the 210 sq metre house there’s a living room with a marble fireplace and a large walnut floored kitchen/diner with cream units. The ground floor also has guest WC, a utility and a fifth bedroom/ home office while the upstairs has a spacious landing , bathroom and four bedrooms, one en suite.

In addition to the 74 sq metre patio, which the family use as a living space, the house has a back lawn,a large front garden and detached garage which has been turned into a well-equipped gym.

Guiding at €495,000, No 8 Corrigeene is in a development of 14 houses located within half an hour’s drive from Waterford city and 26 km from Wexford .

VERDICT: Stylish inside and out.

Spacious and distinctively V shaped, Gortmagee House near Killaloe property offers tranquil rural living with stables on a site of almost two acres.

“The River Ballteige runs along the boundary so you’ve got nature on your doorstep. In the garden there’s a beautiful Weeping Willow tree and the site also has a barn, a three bay stable and a large paddock,” says Sarah Fenton of Clare Tipp Properties who believes this would make a wonderful trade up for a Limerick city buyer.

The partly stone faced property was built in the early 2000s by previous owners who gave their unusually shaped home some of the features of a traditional cottage including redbrick window surrounds on the outside and exposed ceiling rafters on the inside.

In one wing of the V shaped 300 sq metres house there’s a large kitchen/diner with exposed beams and kitchen units arranged in the shape of a horseshoe There’s also utility and a sitting room while the other wing has a play room, a guest WC and a larger reception room with exposed beams and a bay window.

The upstairs games area on the landing , a bathroom and four bedrooms including a spacious en suite with a balcony. There’s additional space in the attic which has two rooms and a bathroom.

Guiding at €695,000, Gortmagee House is located four km from Killaloe and 24 km from Limerick city

VERDICT: Will suit a buyer with horses or one who longs for rural tranquillity and seclusion.