You need planning to put in a water treatment system, I wouldn't take it on without at least asking about planning permission.
Room for a pony
That's who I thought of too, Hilda! 🤣
That 3m house is mental. Owner probably died and family are selling and it needs complete modernisation on top of your 3m. There was plenty of amazing places in this thread you could buy for that price. Yes it is on a prime location but any time you wanted to swimming it would be jammed. Want to sit outside and enjoy the weather be swamped with noises and people could see you too afaik as it isn't very private and for 3m I would want privacy.
The land doesn't look good at all and it looks like there is a Japanese knotweed problem.
I saw that room for pony house the other day too. One of the photos looks like lots of Japanese knotweed. Strange advert.
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-ballaghamore-lower-borris-in-ossory-co-laois/3985597
€99,500 for a (very) run down church. I guess it would make a good recording studio.
If it was bought to be used as a house, any idea what happens to the graves? Are they moved or kept there?
That would be amazing in the right hands.
The graves remain undisturbed and I think there would be a right of way for anyone who wished to visit the graveyard, although I stand to be corrected on that.
I can’t see anyone paying 3m for that I’m not sure what you would even do with it, getting to it is a pain aswell not to mention the complete lack of privacy .
I love that building. Provided the roof is good (no woodworm/rot/beetles) then there is still a lot to do, but it could be gorgeous. Expensive though - the doors alone would have to be rebuilt and the ironmongery restored and transferred, and any interior work would have to be on the same substantial scale as the building. Underfloor heating, replastering with some sort of insulation to be considered and rewiring, restore the windows. How the interior could be divided up would need a lot of thought, but it could be lovely.
I was thinking about how you would house-ify that church. Long corridor down the right side, living room at the nave, kitchen in the middle, bedroom/bathroom at the end. Small but you'd get the beautiful roof and windows. You could probably take the partition walls up to the underside of the roof for some soundproofing. I wouldn't add in a second floor. It could be stunning. But yeah, cost a fortune.
I was wondering if there was anyway you could use the pulpit for something. The benches could (potentially) restored and stuck outside.
Looking at the plans again your biggest issue might turn out to be the access. The entrance is right on a corner. Also several large pieces of the grounds are marked off (presumably graves) so putting in a water treatment system might be problematic. And a lot of the grounds have rights of way, not likely to be an issue in themselves but could have an effect on insurance?
Also if it is not on mains water you could have problems getting permission for a well with all those graves around. Might not be an issue if they are all old, but would have to be considered.
I believe that when churches are deconsecrated, the graves are relocated as part of the process.
A work colleague looked at buying a similar church in Tipp about 10 years or so ago and they told me that they would be allowed to move the headstones and hang/fix them on the inside of the perimeter wall but not disturb the actual graves.
That staircase is like the one from Hogwarts that moves around.
The property is occupied under terms unknown there's your catch. There was no one in the one that went for 160k.
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-fartagh-lisduff-virginia-co-cavan/3750821 - McMansion.
A quick Google suggests it's common to move graves in the UK if the graveyard is no longer used, but not here, sometimes the graveyard is excluded from the sale too.
@looksee is spot on, you might need to buy adjoining land for services.
Am I missing something or does the balcony have no rail or safety around it at all? It just opens out into that rounded platform in pic 26
In fairness its night and day the difference between this, and that gaudy one in westmeath.
no, you are not missing anything.
Is the railing inside the doors in this pic?
Edit: it was the staircase inside 😂
You're not wrong but it's fairly ostentatious. The outside look, pillars at the door, the staircase, the 'O' in the floor (guessing it's connected with the family name?), potentially unused piano, kitchen cabinets look nice but seem cheaply made (odd gap in the one by the fridge, paneling on the island seems to be coming apart?), cushions by the fireplace in multiple rooms, exposed beams in the sunroom, the bedrooms are quite basic looking in comparison to what the downstairs is trying to show.
That's the bannister on the landing inside as the staircase comes up the middle of the house
That house for sale in Omeath. I'm very sure that Garda Tony Golden was shot dead outside that one or the one next door in 2015.
Sounds like a problem tenant either way.
Same house I think? Only one with that little alcove/lane thing the Garda is standing in.
The inside is very empty, but it's hard to furnish a house that size unless you buy things for the sake of it. I'd imagine it's very echoey.
Why make a McMansion with an enormous hallway when you're gonna shove the staircase behind the door?
Ahh shure.....why would you need a balustrade for the balcony in a place called Windy Heights?
And while your at it, having a landing at the top of the stairs at a doorway is just just a waste of money.
