On the plus side it's located halfway between my mother and sister. they live on opposite sides of the bay.
You'd have to get a cut out of this for the roof
From an article on IT last year, I think it was in flats from the 30’s to the 90’s. Cool place to have a flat back then. Fair play to the owners for restoring it.
An actual castle for 3m in Clonskeagh
Yeah if you look at where the swings and trampoline are, it's like they've placed them to be as far as possible from potential floodwater.
I've a river at the end of the field behind my house and in winter when there's storms and heavy rain, the field floods. It doesn't matter to us because we don't use the field for anything, but if that was our garden it would be a pain in the arse if it flooded for several weeks out of the year. Also they'll have a nightmare trying to get home insurance on that - we had difficulty even though our river is small and about 200m away from the house. That's a massive river in the back garden!
It's not a working lighthouse any more.
Ideally the price would be based on the b&b income as shown on the books and tax return. B&bs are normally sold as going concerns with say 5% profit per year which values the business. With COVID I would say this place lost and lost money, and it's probably unviable to even maintain the place and heat it or keep someone onsite to welcome those renting rooms. Ideally I would like to see a group like Irish landmark trust take it over and rent it out a week at a time to the likes of doctors and solicitors. They typically take iconic sites, spend a fortune tastefully renovating to a high standard and rent them out. Pre COVID some of their lighthouse rentals such as Wicklow head were booked out 24/7/365 at rents of 1000 euro a week. You can book short term mostly mainland based accomodation here
Stay in the height of winter if you want to hear the banshees. Some of their smaller one bedroom gate lodges are reasonable for a weekend get away.
Well, I did not know that. Every day's a schoolday, as they say!!
(Would still drive me nuts though!)
The LBGetc rainbow always only has six colours.
Ouch...
Confused... Lightnouse or old garda station? Two different places.. Lighthouse road is a dead end
Very little traffic. The village is ... very very quiet and small. Just the minor coast road serving the coastal villages and dwellings. I lived near Glencolumcille and just local access basically
If it is a working lighthouse there has to be a keeper? Or did that die out with modern technques? Ah yes, automation ( wikiipaedia) and this one was decommisioned..
The gravel everywhere! ‘Yes I would like to get some serious walking in before my feet reach the lawn/ have the opportunity to start a used car dealership on my drive/have ample parking for articulated lorries/turn my car around without ever using the reverse gear’
What is Irish people’s obsession with acres of paving???
I find the concrete back garden particularly grim. With that and exact same kitchen tiles that were seemingly laid in every rural Irish house until about 1996, I can’t blame them for trying to brighten the place with stairs.
It's the rainbow 🌈, but only 6 of the 7 colours. Would send me over the edge eventually!
While I don't like uncarpeted stairs - the only carpet in my house is the one on the stairs - and its a fairly rubbish paint job - I have no problem with the overall effect 😀
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It is the new woke LGBTQIA + what ever your having today colour scheme, complete with fairy door.
That would drive my OCD nuts 🧐
^^^
The stairs....
https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/semi-detached-house-30-cornamaddy-athlone-co-westmeath-n37y8c2/4248299
And another €200k to do it up only to have a house with no front garden and traffic whizzing by only a few feet from your bedroom window.
That's a big nope from me.
The lighthouse is overpriced by about €3 million.
You can almost feel the gloom and doom of that garda station, just looking at the photos.
That Clare Island lighthouse is priced for the international market, a rich yank emigrant who wants a bit of the old sod for 2 weeks a year.
Here's a dilapidated old Garda station for 200k in most rural Donegal.
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They must have been king of the Celtic Tiger with all that decking. There's enough there to have a tennis court on it.
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Id say the back garden has been flooded on more than one occasion
But compared with a few decades ago it is easy enough. A good ferry service ... Cars can be parked at the mainland quay... and off you go to town or wherever. It is all part of the very distinctively unique island life. And folk adapt..oh and google Clare Island shops.. It is a really well provided island ... Helicopter? Ah yes the Rescue Helicopter for medical emergencies..Off to Castlebar in around 20 minutes.. Faster than any road access.
I researched Clare Island very fully but it was too populated and busy for me.
I am aware it is an island. that is part of the appeal.
use that room for guests you dont want to stay too long.
Out here I have that. What impresses me the most here is the total utter darkness. NB you would not get that at the Clare Lighthouse of course...
Just BLACK... and hearing the ocean in the darkness ..I am in Clew Bay too..They say there are 365 islands in Clew Bay..
But a lighthouse has always appealed hugely to me to the point of near obsession.. drop me in a huge huge bag of knitting yarn and I am happy for as long as need be..
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