{"id":74697,"date":"2025-09-20T04:49:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/74697\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T04:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:49:19","slug":"modern-five-bedroom-home-in-countryside-setting-close-to-castleconnell-for-e780000-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/74697\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern five-bedroom home in countryside setting close to Castleconnell for \u20ac780,000 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Address:<\/strong> Swallows Hill, Doonass, Clonlara, Co Clare<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price:<\/strong> \u20ac780,000 <\/p>\n<p><strong>Agent:<\/strong> Sherry FitzGerald<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"c-button c-button--link c-button--full-width c-button--large c-button--primary-reverse c-external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myhome.ie\/residential\/brochure\/swallow-hill-doonass-clonlara-co-clare\/4953650\"> View this property on MyHome.ie <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Perched on an elevated site overlooking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/clare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/clare\">Clare<\/a> countryside, and the mountains of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kerry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kerry\/\">Kerry<\/a> on clear days, vistas from this new house also take in the home of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/munster-rugby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/munster-rugby\/\">Munster rugby<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/thomond-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/thomond-park\/\">Thomond Park<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\">Limerick<\/a> city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The owners called the home Swallows Hill, as you can sometimes hear the migratory call of birds\u2019 song from the 0.9-acre grounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Purchased by its builder-owner in 2009, it was just to shell and core: \u201cIt was watertight but wasn\u2019t even at first-fix stage,\u201d the owner says, who has now placed the fully finished house on the market through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sherry-fitzgerald\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sherry-fitzgerald\/\">Sherry FitzGerald<\/a>, seeking \u20ac780,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Don\u2019t be fooled by thinking this is your average country bungalow. Extending to 390 sq m (4,198sq ft), the property offers plenty of space, which is first evident from the scale of the front hallway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">To put it into context, the main bedroom suite measures about 93sq m (1,000sq ft), the size of some two-bed homes. Here, a dressingroom has plenty of space for those with large sartorial collections, and the 20sq m en suite bathroom would give any five-star hotel a run for its money. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is listed as having five bedrooms in total, but as three of these lie on the ground floor (so will suit multigenerational living) they could also be used as further reception rooms if needed. It\u2019s all a moveable feast and could even be split into a self-contained unit if needed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">As it stands, a large kitchen and breakfastroom, which opens to one of two south-facing patios, sits adjacent to a fine dual-aspect livingroom, with another reception room upstairs in use as a home office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Its Ber is A3, thanks to 150ml pumped insulation plus an additional 50ml internal insulation slabs. It has an efficient heat pump (with five zones) and underfloor heating guarantees no cold toes on winter mornings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"The property stands on 0.9 acres with ancient oak trees\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5Q37T3LBSJCZNOL7GMVR34464A.JPG\"   width=\"800\" height=\"600\"\/>The property stands on 0.9 acres with ancient oak trees <img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Hall\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AMZKYPUZGJCT7CEJHOGTBVXY5U.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Hall <img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Living room\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CFCSA6TOEBGUTD755Y2CS7XX3A.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Living room <img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Breakfast area\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/VZQJXPZGPRG65B5A6MHBFYK7RY.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Breakfast area <img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Utility\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CNREMWCC25ABTNVXWH45YT73YQ.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Utility <img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Dining space\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/QWSY5VG5UZCMPJXWAHOOCQAHJE.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Dining space <img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Main bedroom\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/YFYK7ZXW5VDWVGTHLQFCNIEPXY.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Main bedroom <img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Dressing room for main bedroom\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MLTH73WE3ZE27JAVEL4HBT3YQU.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Dressing room for main bedroom <img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"En-suite for the main bedroom\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/FL2WW2JYXFCPJJ5ZSRFU3QIZ5I.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>En-suite for the main bedroom <img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"There are some old oaks on the site\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/LB2SJVGNPFHUVH66GPPRFDVB4U.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>There are some old oaks on the site <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Despite having a Co Clare address, a 15-minute walk over a nearby footbridge crossing the river Shannon will have you in the lovely village of Castleconnell (Co Limerick), where there are the charming public houses of Bradshaw\u2019s and Guerin\u2019s. It\u2019s also close to the Angler\u2019s Rest in Clonlara, where you can sip a pint, read the paper and look out at soothing waters of Doonass Falls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The property, which is wired for electric gates, is about a 20-minute drive from Limerick city centre, so really has the best of both worlds: all the charm and peace of the countryside within an easy commute to the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Address: Swallows Hill, Doonass, Clonlara, Co Clare Price: \u20ac780,000 Agent: Sherry FitzGerald View this property on MyHome.ie Perched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,45480,7486,50958,18,19,17,1844,22736,1658,1266],"class_list":{"0":"post-74697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-castleconnell","10":"tag-clare","11":"tag-country-homes","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-limerick","16":"tag-new-to-the-market","17":"tag-property","18":"tag-sherry-fitzgerald"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74697","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=74697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}