{"id":28151,"date":"2025-08-28T06:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/28151\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T06:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:38:12","slug":"endless-summer-living-beside-the-sea-in-brittas-bay-for-e1-35m-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/28151\/","title":{"rendered":"Endless summer living beside the sea in Brittas Bay for \u20ac1.35m \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Address:<\/strong> 8 Cornagower Park Brittas Bay Co Wicklow<\/p>\n

Price:<\/strong> \u20ac1,350,000 <\/p>\n

Agent:<\/strong> Mullery O’Gara<\/p>\n

View this property on MyHome.ie <\/a><\/p>\n

Just 100m from the shoreline of Brittas Bay\u2019s South Beach sits 8 Cornagower Park: a bespoke, one-of-a-kind contemporary home within a private, gated enclave.<\/p>\n

While today this contemporary fusion of indoor and outdoor living extends to 266sq m (2,866sq ft), back when its current owners purchased the place in 2020 (for \u20ac404,000 according to the Property Price Register), it measured 132sq m (1,420sq ft). So, essentially, it has doubled in size. Not only that, in terms of running the house, its new Ber is A1 \u2013 the highest possible rating on the sustainability scale \u2013 and a vast upgrade from its previous lowly rating of E1.<\/p>\n

Number 8 Cornagower Park was originally intended to be a holiday home with its owners\u2019 long-term view being that they would eventually retire here. But life for the family has changed, and now the couple and their four children are moving on from Ireland to warmer climes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe really wanted to be an eco-friendly house, and the heating hasn\u2019t come on since we finished it. Our total running bills are less than \u20ac1,000 a year, with the biggest expense now being broadband,\u201d says the owner. Besides it\u2019s A1 rating, the house has its own rainwater harvesting system and its own water supply from a well, which is now purified thanks to a 250ml layer of specialised filter sand.<\/p>\n

The brief to architect Joe Fallon was to design a home to bring the outside in. This objective has been met with outdoor dining and living areas that create a seamless divide between spaces. Every bit of this home\u2019s half-acre site has been thoughtfully designed in collaboration with Evergreen Landscaping, from its five-a-side football pitch, its basketball half court, table tennis area, and the oversized hot tub that sits in a space where the owners like to sip a glass of something cool while stargazing.<\/p>\n

Even the house\u2019s entrance manages to blend its outside and inside spaces seamlessly: accessed through a break in the Venetian plastered exterior \u2013 which has been infused with copper to give metallic-hued veins \u2013 it\u2019s more like a contemporary cloister set around a courtyard. Here, a piece of sculpture in the shape of a harp serves as a reminder of one of the family\u2019s grandparent\u2019s 40-year career with Guinness (Diageo).<\/p>\n

\"88 Cornagower Park, Brittas Bay, Co Wicklow \"TheThe entrance \"HarpHarp sculpture in courtyard <\/p>\n

Internally, a moody palette echoes the house\u2019s gun-metal grey exteriors, except for a bar with working taps, which its owner describes as having more of a \u201cchic boutique cocktail feel\u201d. \u201cEven though it\u2019s only used once or twice a year, it really is our novelty factor, and our friends who come from Dublin for the weekends (under an hour\u2019s drive away) just love it\u201d.<\/p>\n

The house has three reception spaces in the form of a kitchen, dining and livingroom, which run into each other.<\/p>\n

\"Kitchen\/diningKitchen\/dining area \"Livingroom\"Livingroom \"Bar\"Bar \"OutdoorOutdoor living area <\/p>\n

Coupled with the outdoor spaces (which are both roofed and open to the sky) there are plenty of options for entertaining, or for chilling out after a swim \u2013 as the sea is just a 100m stroll away. The grill in the barbecue area can cook up to \u201c40 burgers at a time\u201d and the house really lends itself to entertaining on its half-acre site. <\/p>\n

\"BarbecueBarbecue area \"OutdoorOutdoor seating area \"OutdoorOutdoor dining area \"OutdoorOutdoor seating <\/p>\n

With five bedrooms, the en suite principal has its own large dressingroom, office and a gym with direct access to the garden via sliding doors.<\/p>\n

\"MainMain bedroom \"Gym\"Gym \"Bedroom\"Bedroom <\/p>\n

Attention to detail is evident throughout the house. In the courtyard, backlit laser-cut panels depict birds on a tree, echoing the local nesting starlings. Speaking of trees, there\u2019s also a tree house accessed by a little bridge, under which there\u2019s a rubberised, gravel trampoline pit just like the ones you\u2019d find at a playground in a public park. Even the football pitch has Fifa-approved synthetic grass.<\/p>\n

\"FootballFootball pitch \"BasketballBasketball court \"TableTable Tennis area \"HouseHouse and grounds <\/p>\n

The garden room, currently used as a children\u2019s cinema has a bathroom while the guest studio comprises a bedroom, bathroom and kitchenette.<\/p>\n

The owners have invested a lot in this house, from the high-end appliances in the kitchen, the Armani tiling in the guest suite, the antique oak-effect Millwood deck in the outside living space, the oversized, solar-powered hot tub (yes, it is staying) and the herringbone parquet flooring.<\/p>\n

\"HotHot tub <\/p>\n

So is this someone\u2019s holiday retreat or forever home? Asked about the make-up of those living in Cornagower Park, the owners say the ratio of full-time to summertime and weekend residents has shifted since the Covid-19 pandemic to about 60:40.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe beach at Brittas Bay <\/p>\n

Number 8, a unique, contemporary A-rated home with a multitude of facilities just minutes from a sandy beach, is now on the market seeking \u20ac1.35 million through agent Mullery O\u2019Gara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Address: 8 Cornagower Park Brittas Bay Co Wicklow Price: \u20ac1,350,000 Agent: Mullery O’Gara View this property on MyHome.ie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[22737,18,19,17,22735,22736,132,946],"class_list":{"0":"post-28151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-brittas-bay","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-mullery-ogara","13":"tag-new-to-the-market","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-wicklow"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}