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 😀
It's the rainbow 🌈, but only 6 of the 7 colours. Would send me over the edge eventually!
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.
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..
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
Confused... Lightnouse or old garda station? Two different places.. Lighthouse road is a dead end
Ouch...
The LBGetc rainbow always only has six colours.
Well, I did not know that. Every day's a schoolday, as they say!!
(Would still drive me nuts though!)
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.
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!
An actual castle for 3m in Clonskeagh
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.
You'd have to get a cut out of this for the roof
On the plus side it's located halfway between my mother and sister. they live on opposite sides of the bay.
It's not really a castle though, it's a castellated house.
Tacky as fook IMO too.
I'm disappointed there's no cells :)
Nevermind the stairs, the most offensive thing about that house is the TV placement!
If your TV is closer to the ceiling than the floor you're doing something wrong.
Completely off topic but John Lennon once owned an island in Clew Bay. He had a helicopter though (or at least had access to one).
He used to hop over to Mulranny for sessions in the hotel. He actually played a tape of the song Revolution from the album the Beatles were working on at the time.
Fascinating! Thank you
I saw this on twitter but I can't find the tweet. The description says
***Please Note: Photos in this advertisement have been CGi'd to display how this property could look like once redecorated. Currently, this property is in need of decoration***
I find it very misleading that there are no photos showing the true state of the interior - makes me think it must be very bad indeed!
Edit - just noticed that since yesterday they added photos of what seems to be the actual interior, and it looks fine. Or are those not real either? The rooms don't look particularly in need of decoration.
It's virtual staging - the furniture is CGI'd in to give an idea of how it would look with stuff in it. I think by decoration they probably mean addition of furniture and accessories.
Lest I be doubted
I actually don’t mind this at all. The real (empty) photos are there and the mock ups aren’t ridiculous looking (ie it’s all very doable).
Presumably anybody interested would visit it in person anyway
Ah wonderful.. I nearly went to Inishturk to live when I was seeking offshore but there were no rentals and yes I looked at Inishturk Beg online. But no accommodation . Thank you. I iwll ask my neighbour the ferryman about it all as he was born here and at nearly 70 has never lived elsewhere.
True he owned it but he only ever spent one night there
Actually just looking at it again on a bigger screen, you can see that the walls have been Photoshopped as well. If you look at the pics of the living room with the orange and blue walls around the chimney, you can see where they did it. I wonder if the place is full of mould/mildew because it was left vacant with the pool filled and no heating on.
This really would not want to become a 'thing'. I agree that the redecoration needed is not the furnishings, it is the painting etc, and I would pretty much dismiss it as a possibility to look at based on the fact that there are essentially no photos. It is a nonsense idea, it would make house-buying impossible if all the properties were photoshopped to a state where you have no idea what is actually there.
I wonder if it's crap enough looking that if they show it as is they won't get any interest in it. If you look carefully at the kitchen units, it looks like there may be some water damage to the bottoms of them.
It reminds me iof the time i deciided on going offshore. I "trekked" online all along the West Coast and thought Tory Island was an option and OH LOOK! Houses to rent at the lighthouse... WOW. When I inquired I was firmly informed that they would NOT rent them out in winter as NOONE would deliver fuel. Not offshore so imagine the weather? Actually I would be fine as I am here....But other factors..
