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T will be a hard job keeping up with the neighbours at this farmhouse buy — but, it’s likely the buyers will in any case be fairly wellheeled, and Hunter wellington-shod. Newly up for sale, after the death of its bachelor farm owner, is a rare, rare west Cork offering to get the covetous mind’s cogs a-whirring. This lot has half a mile of sheltered sea frontage to wonderful Roaringwater Bay, 30 acres of private headland with views of islands and the Fastnet Lighthouse, an oldLocation: style but solid century-old farmhouse, practical yard and Price: outbuildings — and a castle. Size: Welcome to Rossbrin Castle, first and foremost, one of the signal towers strategically Bedrooms: placed along the west Cork BER rating: shoreline, all within sight of one another, and in varying Broadband: states of repair. Next stop east Best asset: along the way, actor Jeremy Irons’s fully restored colourful Kilcoe Castle is an object lesson in castle renovation. But, he didn’t start with a tower in as parlous and precipitous a state as Rossbrin. Not only is Rossbrin described as a ruin, it is a fairly dangerous state, with several deeply worrying cracks evident in its upper section, and you’d want to take care prowling around it in a high wind. But, what a setting! It’s up on a rocky outcrop, properly placed for strategic viewing over privatelyowned Horse Island to Cape Clear, out to the Fastnet, and back towards the entrance to Schull harbour. Originally an O’Mahony castle, Rossbrin is the

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TRADING UP A Rosscarbery home with lagoon views is no slouch internally either.

NEWS Hope for distressed schemes as 14 different buyers band together for a bargain.

remnants of a four storey tower house with two flanking towers, and the remains of a vaulted lower room are still evident, under the ominously looming single, soaring corner of stone and stairway. Where Rossbrin Castle sits is where any new owner would ideally like to site a house. But, it’s unlikely planners might concur with snuggling up close to such a prominent monument, so intending new residents may look at other house site options. Or, they may simply and costeffectively choose Rossbrin, west Cork to work with the €800,000 existing house, was sited Ruined Castle plus 1,300 sq ft which for shelter, and farmhouse which still has fantastic inland 3 and inlet views, Pending with boats moored around Yes this property’s Sheer romance shoreline, thanks to the presence of the well-regarded Rossbrin boatyard a few hundred yards away. This stretch of coastline is very much an under-the radar “Golden Mile”. The fact Rossbrin’s off the main linking road only adds to its allure. The lot is for sale with Stephen O’Keeffe of James Lyons O’Keeffe auctioneers in Schull, who guide at €800,000, and who readily acknowledge that back in better times “it would have been worth millions, but when the owner was asked if he was interested in selling, he’d answer “not a blade of grass”. The entire available mix includes 30 scenic acres of grass in several large divisions, with access roadway

STARTERS A Waterville cottage comes to market after a similar property finds a buyer.

12 COVER STORY Bluebell Cottage has a crow’s nest views over Sandycove island near Kinsale.

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and water, cattle shed (with better views than the existing house), stone outbuilding which looks like it might be an earlier dwelling, and the two-storey traditional farmhouse, now damp but eminently salvageable, with a large solid fuel stove powering central heating. The house is easy to upgrade, and those of a more speculative bent, or with lots of money, will surely look at the possibility of a second, better sited home, and possibly even tourism potential. If used as an organic/hobby farm, the castle’s presence and profile will allow immediate “branding” opportunities. VERDICT: This is a sale to watch for 2012. Will an Irish buyer emerge, or be trumped by an overseas purchaser? Oh, and bring a boat.

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TRADING UP A Rosscarbery home with lagoon views is no slouch internally either.

NEWS Hope for distressed schemes as 14 different buyers band together for a bargain.

STARTERS A Waterville cottage comes to market after a similar property finds a buyer.

12 COVER STORY Bluebell Cottage has a crow’s nest views over Sandycove island near Kinsale.

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Fourteen buyers got together to negotiate a combined deal in Glengarriff, writes Tommy Barker

A BALLINCOLLIG, CORK €200,000 Sq m: 156 (1,670 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Bedrooms: 4 Broadband: Yes

BACK in the day when first finished, houses like 73 Maple Lawn were the largest homes being built in Cork’s fledgling suburb, the satellite town of Ballincollig. Punching in at a highly respectable 1,670 sq ft, this home within the Muskerry Estate is still plenty big enough for a family looking for space. At its €200,000 price guide, via agents Sherry FitzGerald, it is a bit of a box ticker — but it will need upgrading and modernising, starting with a more modern kitchen. No 73 faces a good green space and has off-street parking, front garden and its side passage is given over to a long run of covered utility space, the depth of the house but only about 4’ wide. Internally, its main living room to the left of the hall is 25’ deep and 12’ wide, and off to the right is another reception room, while the 16’ by 12’ kitchen to the rear continues the theme of useful rooms with good proportions, and there’s also a ground floor WC. Overhead are a single and three double bedrooms, plus family bathroom, making it a good fit for most families. VERDICT: Nice location, good back garden, great space inside for the money, but you’d be wise to spend on insulation, and it could do with a more modern decor too.

GREENFIELDS, KILLUMNEY €420,000 Sq m: 170 (1,819 sq ft) BER rating: C1

Bedrooms: 4 Broadband: Yes

THERE’S a large kitchen extension to the back of this detached four bed at Greenfields, Killumney, which gives the house great flexibility for growing families. A new Cork market entrant with Norma Healy of Sherry FitzGerald, No 55 Fernwalk is an ideal trading-up property — it has a good site, a quiet and safe location and is located in a nicely mature estate. Also, it has a quality level of finish, a fact which is reflected in the asking price. In terms of purchases, this a headache-free, move-in proposition, she says, and the property offers plenty of space. No 55 has a lounge, study, family room, the extended kitchen/ diner with utility, four bedrooms and three bathrooms, including an en suite master. Best of all the house has a southerly aspect with good gardens and faces onto a large green. VERDICT: Greenfields was designed for immediate access to the Ballincollig bypass route making this large, modern estate ideal for commuters. Ideal for families, good schools are nearby and the new town centre at Ballincollig makes for great, almost self-sufficient local amenities.

KILLARNEY, KERRY €450,000 Sq m: 230 (2,500 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

SOME of Killarney’s best lake views should put this Tullig, Tiernaboul, Killarney home firmly on the radar of those trading up, as well as relocaters. Priced at €450,000 by Tanya O’Shea of Coyne and Culloty, she says Tullig is a house and particularly a spectacular setting that people are impressed with when they visit, but the problem for would-be buyers has been access to finance. This is a five-bed, with four bedrooms on one (lower) level, and with fantastic raised views of the lake from its sloping three-quarter acre site, less than two miles from the town. The grounds are richly planted, especially with conifers and evergreens for year-round colour. The current owners are here years, have kept it well and built it in a sort of kinked shape for interest. Well finished inside, it can be split into almost two houses thanks to a kitchenette in one lower level: there’s value for money here, the agent enthuses. It was designed, says Ms O’Shea, with the idea of maximising the lake views, and has a heavily-glazed open plan lounge/kitchen/dining room with great lake views, maximised with an enclosed balcony/sun room. The master bedroom is at the upper level, and the other four are downstairs, a clear case of sensibly working with the site and the setting. VERDICT: Well worth a look.

MALLOW, CORK €279,000 A GOOD example of the freedoms to be had in a detached country dormer can be seen at this Burnfort, Mallow home known as Toureen. Listed with agents FML Properties in Cork, at €279,000 it encompasses a 2,100 sq ft five-bed home with one en suite, has some large living spaces to balance the good sleeping space, plus a detached double garage with overhead storage (needing some finishing), all on an acre site and within a 20 minute spin by car of the city. Paul O’Connor of FML says Toureen has been welldecorated and maintained, and features include a lofty

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BURGATIA, ROSSCARBERY €395,000 Sq m: 170 (1,800 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Bedrooms: 3 Broadband: Yes

THIS house sale is a good indication of current trends — its owners have upped sticks to Australia and having settled in, have decided to sell their family home at Rosscarbery, Co Cork. According to Pat Maguire, of Pat Maguire Properties, he’s letting a substantial number of properties for young families who’ve made the move to the antipodes and some have made the decision to stay. Which is why this fine, modern threebed is up for grabs and the agent is very open to offers on the property. A three-bed with a substantial amount of living space, it comes with cathedral ceilings in the kitchen and living room which both open out to an elevated patio with views over the lagoon. Located off the Mill Road, it’s very safe and secure for children, he says and the location is one of the best in Rosscarbery, as it has south-west facing views over the village and that feature lagoon. Planning permission is also strictly patrolled which means it’s locals-only to build, with houses of this quality, in this location, rare to get. VERDICT: This is not a run-of-the-mill three-bed, but a good modern house with great character and convenience. It comes with lots of luxury extras, has underfloor heating and great use of space. And the quality of life comes free.

Sq m: 195 (2,100 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

UNIQUE group purchase of 14 houses over the Christmas period holds out hope for sales of other distressed property developments. Against the odds, 14 different private buyers came together to each buy completed holiday homes in west Cork’s Mountain View, in Glengarriff. All 14 sales closed out in midDecember, with individual buyers getting their purchases for Christmas and the New Year. It’s likely they got their homes (with a communal leisure centre itself costing more than €1 million), for an average of €85,000 each. The houses, built by a Limerick partnership and funded by Anglo Irish Bank were for sale via a receiver, guiding around €100,000 each. It’s likely the equivalent of a group purchase of the committed buyers meant they got a significant discount: other houses in the 23-unit development sold last year for over €100,000 each. These 14 four-star rental/holiday homes have sold for well under build cost. They’ve been insured for €150,000 rebuild each. None of the 14 purchasers, ranging in ages from 30s to 70s, needed a mortgage, and most buyers had long links with Glengarriff. The remarkable deal was shepherded through by auctioneer John

O’Neill of Celtic Properties. He said once he saw there was enthusiasm and enough potential buyers willing to act in agreement, he stuck with the difficult process, overcoming every hurdle along the way. “I have a tree of paper files,” he noted. The series of sales, negotiated from August 201l to a closing in December “had about a 10% chance of succeeding I would have reckoned at the outset, but once Finn McSweeney who lives locally came on board as a leader for the purchasers, I could see it that it could work,” said a delighted Mr O’Neill. That key local link, Finn McSweeney, is a businessman with considerable legal and contracts experience, and he already had a home a few hundred yards from Mountain View. According to Mr McSweeney, “I had seen the scheme being built and was impressed, but the developers just ran out of money to finish it. I didn’t want a ghost estate or a Famine village on Glengarriff ’s doorstep, and decided to do something about it instead. And, I reckon it will work in other places where you have enough committed local buyers.” Several buyers will rent out houses for golf tourism, he expects. Mr McSweeney added that while the bank considered the leisure centre a liability in the sale, the buyers saw it as an asset for the entire

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Glengarriff Sold for c€85,000 each 105/120 sq m (1,150/1,300 sq ft) Bedrooms: 3 BER rating: Pending Broadband: Yes

John O’Neill and Carmel O’Regan of Celtic Properties, at the Mountain View Holiday Homes Development, Glengarriff, Co, Cork. Below: A section of Mountain View Holiday Homes.

the trust they put in Mr O’Neill and Mr McSweeney that got this through. I don’t think you could come into a town or village where you weren’t known and make something like this work,” said the Angloappointed receiver.

Port na hAbhann, Cappoquin, Co.Waterford FOR SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION On Thursday 26th January 2012, at 12 Noon The Park Hotel, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford

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entry hall with overhead Velux, a 33’ by 17 kitchen/ dining room with oak units, a lounge and living room each with fireplaces, and utility, plus guest WC. There’s a ground floor playroom, or bed 5, and overhead one of the four other bedrooms is en suite. The main family bathroom has a Jacuzzi bath, and the property has zoned heating, and electric access gates to its acre site, with rural views to the rear. VERDICT: A good deal of good house for the price being sought.

community. He has already been contacted by other banks and receivers to see if he can apply his experience to similar sales. “I’d like to do at least two more to prove the point, one ‘nice’ one, and one ‘impossible’ one,” said Mr McSweeney, who returned to Ireland after over 30 years working abroad. Mountain View’s 14 houses had been over two years on the market via receiver Richard Maguire of Limerick-based O’Donovan Caulfield Lavan, who said that previous investor/ speculator offers on the lot had fallen through. “After I was approached in the summer by auctioneer John O’Neill who said he could put together a group led by Mr McSweeney, I agreed to give him the time he said he needed. What made it work was the fact everyone had a connection with Glengarriff and most knew one another. It needed trust, and it was

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• Accommodation approx. 1,330 sq ft (124 sq m) and comprises of entrance hall, sitting room, wc, pantry, kitchen/dining/sun lounge and first floor includes three bedrooms, main en-suite and bathroom.

Solicitor: Ciara Quinlan, Whelan Solicitors, Grattan Court, Washington Street West, Cork. T: 021 4271269

Electrician Noel O’Sullivan and builder Noel O’Leary, working on the renovations at Mountain View Holiday Homes Development.

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A BALLINCOLLIG, CORK €200,000 Sq m: 156 (1,670 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Bedrooms: 4 Broadband: Yes

GREENFIELDS, KILLUMNEY €420,000 Sq m: 170 (1,819 sq ft) BER rating: C1

Bedrooms: 4 Broadband: Yes

KILLARNEY, KERRY €450,000 Sq m: 230 (2,500 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

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Bedrooms: 5 Broadband: Yes

BURGATIA, ROSSCARBERY €395,000 Sq m: 170 (1,800 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Bedrooms: 3 Broadband: Yes

Sq m: 195 (2,100 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

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Glengarriff Sold for c€85,000 each 105/120 sq m (1,150/1,300 sq ft) Bedrooms: 3 BER rating: Pending Broadband: Yes

John O’Neill and Carmel O’Regan of Celtic Properties, at the Mountain View Holiday Homes Development, Glengarriff, Co, Cork. Below: A section of Mountain View Holiday Homes.

Port na hAbhann, Cappoquin, Co.Waterford FOR SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION On Thursday 26th January 2012, at 12 Noon The Park Hotel, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford

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Electrician Noel O’Sullivan and builder Noel O’Leary, working on the renovations at Mountain View Holiday Homes Development.

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Go with the flow — 11 River Blackwater townhouses €50,000 each Tommy Barker says these properties are cheaper to buy than build

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BALLINCOLLIG, CORK €195,000 Sq m: 82 (900 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

Bedrooms: 2 Broadband: Yes

Cappoquin, Waterford €50,000 125 sq m (1,345 sq ft) 3 Pending Yes

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Something to chew on Woodcock Grove, associated with toffee makers Cleeves, has been switched to self-catering cottages, writes Tommy Barker

NEEDING work, but detached and within a walk of Ballincollig’s town centre in Cork, is this Powdermills cottage. Named (like the picturesque weir on the Lee river by the public park’s walkways) after the old gunpowder mills’ long association with the town, the compact cottage with detached garage is on a 0.2 acre site. And, while it has a current extension in place, it is the sort of place that will gain by further buildingon and doing up. Estate agent Norma Healy of Sherry FitzGerald guides it at €195,000. VERDICT: A mix of rural appeal and convenience.

FARRANREE, CORK €100,000 Sq m: 70 (750 sq ft) BER rating: Pending A FEW bob to be spent on it, but No 153 Kilnap Place is a good Cork city house, in an area with a steady demand. Paul Young of Christy Ryan and Associates is selling the mid-terrace three-bed and is open to offers around the guide price. Rooms include a living room, built-in kitchen, back hall with bathroom and three bedrooms overhead. The garden includes a shed and the front garden could provide off street parking. Paul Young is also selling No 32 Fr Matthew Road, Turner’s Cross,

Bedrooms: 3 Broadband: Yes

EVERY river has its turing point — and an unexpected turn of events is coming up the week after next along the River Blackwater in Waterford’s Cappoquin. Backing onto the river bend, with views of two bridges, this finished scheme of 11 townhouse holiday homes goes under the auction hammer — with each house guided at just €50,000 each. It’s a bank sale, and interest so far has been huge: back in November, we featured them when just five were offered, at prices from €50,000 to €60,000, but there was a slight catch — you had to be a cash buyer, no mortgage borrowers were to be entertained. Now, there’s a change of heart, and anyone in a position to come up with a 10% deposit

and to sign a contract is eligible to buy, and a very lively auction is expected. The 11, comprising the entire of Port na hAbhann, will be offered individually, so it will be interesting to see if the early bidders get best, worst or comparable value as the last gets sold. Agent John Rohan of Sherry FitzGerald is selling on January 26 in Dungarvan, and notes each house has about 1,340 sq ft, and there’s a mix of terraced and semis. They are timber framed, have electric storage heating and have nine-foot ceilings. They’ve got rear sun rooms with river views. Cappoquin is 50 minutes from Waterford city, and 15 from Dungarvan. VERDICT: Cheaper to buy than to build.

which appeared incorrectly as 37 Fr Matthew Road on these pages.

VERDICT: This Kilnap Place house won’t need too much investment to become a good starter home.

BALLINGURTEEN, CORK €185,000 Sq m: 110 (1,260 sq ft) BER rating: C1 PRETTY much everything beyond the retained front wall of this west Cork village home is brand new, such is the scale of its renovations. With a stream at its back garden boundary, the 1,250 sq ft home in pretty Ballingurteen village now has a €185,000 asking price with Micheal Duggan of Sherry FitzGerald O’Neill in Clonakilty. It’s got all the charm and character (vaulted wood ceilings, wood burning stove, immaculate gardens, etc) of a rural cottage, in a village setting.

Bedrooms: 3/4 Broadband: Yes

One gone, another on offer at Waterville

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Waterville, Kerry €150,000 Sq m 93 plus 54 1,000 sq ft plus 600 sq ft guest cottage 2 plus 1 Pending Yes

Tommy Barker says The Swallows should fly, following the successful sale of Tullig farmhouse

VERDICT: Perfect for a buyer trading in from the countryside, or someone who loves west Cork, without the isolation.

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HAVING just gone sale agreed with a Continental European purchaser for a picturesque Tullig, Waterville farm house, on a half acre with views, for around its €170,000 asking price, auctioneer James Hillis of ERA The Property Shop reckons there are buyers in the wings for a similarly attractive new listing. He now guides another traditional property with equal charm called The Swallows at Murreigh, Waterville at €150,000. This time around, the attractive stone-build and

slate roofed property, with a deal of individuality, is a two-bed, all renovated with an added-on sun room, and across the graveled yard is a stone-faced, onebed self-contained guest cottage — also with a sun room grafted onto its gable. It’s on a small site, with dog kennel and run, within a walk of Waterville. VERDICT: Almost down 50% in price from when it was previously on the market, it’s as suitable as a holiday base or a starter home, says its agent.

HERE’S a world of difference between the two detached new house — subject to planning. Dundrums, one in Dublin, the other a long Offered in one lot, it’s most likely going to have an way away in Tipperary. The former is now appeal to someone who wants a ready-made tourism best-known as a sprawling mega shopping product, or another rental venture that’s pretty centre in the midst of Dublin’s southside, crawling manageable, and it has a steady income stream with Ugg-booted teenagers and Yummy Mummies, already from longer-term lets, to local professionals while the latter’s more real, rooted, and historic, with and those working in Dundrum and other Tipperary a creamy and creamery past. towns, who want a bit of quality to their living Signs point off the M8 Cork-Dublin motorway to environment, says Sam Daunt of Savills. Dundrum village just It’s earning over the Corkbetween €45,000 Location: Dundrum, Tipperary Tipperary border. And and €60,000 a year, Price: €1.5 million it’s already wellwith about 80% known for the occupancy at Size: Seven townhouses conversion of the present, so hard(680 to 920 sq ft) 1730s Georgian manor nosed investors house to a country might need to see a Bedrooms: Mix of 2 and 3 beds hotel, wedding venue, way of getting BER rating: Pending leisure centre with more return to 21m pool, and a 18justify the sort of Broadband: Yes hole golf course asking price being Best feature: Manageable project and lifestyle designed by Philip sought, but which Watson. While the is open, say country house hotel has its own self-catering Savills, to negotiation. accommodation, there’s another option, right on the The property, called Woodcock Grove, is limestone boundary of the golf course. and brick-faced and was built as a creamery in the Local man John Browne enthusiastically oversaw 1800s by the Cleeves family to provide milk for their the conversion of a former creamery building on confectionery products. The family scion, Thomas lovely wooded grounds to seven self-catering cottages, Henry Cleeve, moved to Limerick in the 1860s and saw now up for sale with agents Savills in Cork and huge scope for dairy products from Munster and the Dublin, with an existing income stream, guiding €1.5/ Golden Vale. Along with his brothers, he built up a €1.7 million. dairy empire including condensed milk, rising to The mix includes 15 acres with romantic woodland 60,000 cans a day with up to 1,000 workers by the early walks, a rope bridge over a stream, a tennis court, lots 1900s, with much of the product exported to the far of parking, and an acre suitable as a site for a single, corners of the British Empire. More recent

generations will remember Cleeves slab toffee, now back in production since 2008 with LC Confectionery, who’ve also revived the Hadj Bey Turkish Delight brand. (As well as retro-brands, they’ve a chocolate two-fingered offering, the Jedward Popping Chocolate Twin Bars, plus a hair-raising Jedward Easter egg!) Back at this old slice of Cleeve history, this creamery building was taken over by Tipperary CoOperative Society, serving as the local depot for outlying dairy farmers until the 1980s. It was refurbished and wholly redeveloped in 2004, made over to a terrace of seven high-end two and three bedroomed townhouses, with Goppa brand fireplaces and electric heating. Sizes range from one small 620sq ft unit to larger ones, averaging 800sq ft, with quality interiors and character, with open plan ground floor layouts and sympathetic timber windows. Dundrum village is short drive away, Cashel is seven miles away, Cork’s 75 minutes away, Limerick’s 45 minutes and Thurles rail station is a 15 minute drive. The sale includes two life-time memberships to Dundrum Golf Club. VERDICT: A quality job, if the lifestyle suits.

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Go with the flow — 11 River Blackwater townhouses €50,000 each Tommy Barker says these properties are cheaper to buy than build

Location: Price: Size: Bedrooms: BER rating: Broadband:

BALLINCOLLIG, CORK €195,000 Sq m: 82 (900 sq ft) BER rating: Pending

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Cappoquin, Waterford €50,000 125 sq m (1,345 sq ft) 3 Pending Yes

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Something to chew on Woodcock Grove, associated with toffee makers Cleeves, has been switched to self-catering cottages, writes Tommy Barker

Bedrooms: 3 Broadband: Yes

which appeared incorrectly as 37 Fr Matthew Road on these pages.

VERDICT: This Kilnap Place house won’t need too much investment to become a good starter home.

Bedrooms: 3/4 Broadband: Yes

One gone, another on offer at Waterville

Location: Price: Size: Bedrooms: BER rating: Broadband:

Waterville, Kerry €150,000 Sq m 93 plus 54 1,000 sq ft plus 600 sq ft guest cottage 2 plus 1 Pending Yes

Tommy Barker says The Swallows should fly, following the successful sale of Tullig farmhouse

VERDICT: Perfect for a buyer trading in from the countryside, or someone who loves west Cork, without the isolation.

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Fishing for a hillside perch with bells ’n whistles?

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Sandcove, Kinsale €775,000 165 sq m (1,800 sq ft) 3/4 Pending Kinsale proximity and island views

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Pictures: Denis Scannell Mr Kelleher says this remodelled ‘cottage’ could have made serious million(s) back in the mid 2000s, and what’s certain is that it would have sold well in any case, and in rapid order. In the current climate, it is still going to be well viewed, will be appreciated, and should get offers going, but may need some competitive bidding to approach its €775,000 guide via KMS Kinsale.

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In its current configuration, it is a three-bed dormer home with library which could as easily become a fourth bedroom, and has two bedrooms plus large bathroom at first floor level. Downstairs, there’s a decent bedroom, the utility has a WC and shower and external access. There’s also an extensively shelved library, a large entrance hall linking the main house section to a very well

finished garage/workroom, and the main living room is around 22’ by 14’ with chunky balustered stairs along an internal wall. This room, with side window, has a bespoke fireplace, made of English oak 2” planks which John brought over and machined after a bad storm in an English forest, and he also fashioned a suitably old, worn-looking rustic brick insert. It goes with the overall decor, which features darkstained heavy timber ceiling beams, quality woods and attractive old brass light switches. Off to one side of this main living room is a country-style kitchen, with painted solid wood units topped with oak worktops, a ceramic sink, cream-tiled walls, range cooker and wall-mounted plate rack. In keeping with the wood theme, the floor in the kitchen is oak. More practically the entrance hall is floored in large ceramic tiles, very handy as this roomssized hall also opens to the sheltered rear courtyard/patio garden. Best perch of all, though, is the front sun room, with an easterly and southerly aspect, right at the front of the house and this in turn opens to a large, raised deck, the very place on which to soak in sun rays and views over Sandycove island, associated with major developer Gerry Gannon who owns quite a bit of Kinsale property. The sun room is the good room here in just about every sense (though the formal living room is no slouch,) as it has the best of views, that deck access, high beamed ceilings, and a rich hardwood walnut floor. It’s got windows on three sides, with two sets of French doors, and when the sun doesn’t shine, the room is kept cosy thanks to two radiators behind custom-made rad covers, another of owner John Bennett’s skilled handiwork.

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1 Flotsam and jetsam always works in a seaside setting, here an old ceramic hot water bottle works as a still-life with shells and beach pebbles.

Tommy Barker says the owners of this former cottage in Sandycove, Kinsale have gone to great heights to make use of its stunning views HILE Bluebell Cottage undoubtedly has its charms inside, they’ll hardly compete with what’s on offer outside — views. This Sandycove, Cork home is virtually a modern build, despite its antique decor and theme inside: it grew out of a tiny, two-room cottage built in the pre-war period, and mostly is 1980s and later in quality and feel. It has been the home of John and Carol Bennett since its rebirth, and this enterprising couple who’d first holidayed in Kinsale and who had British shop businesses ended up buying and running a wellknown Kinsale cafe. Still with business and leisure interests in Kinsale, they are on the move in the locality, to a property with greater storage space for John’s passions — fishing boats and old motorbikes. Hence, Bluebell Cottage’s arrival for sale with estate agent Kevin Kelleher of Keane Mahony Smith in Kinsale. He’s quoting €775,000 for the dormer bungalow on its hillside perch with the best of views over Sandycove Island to Kinsale harbour and the mouth of the Bandon river, and to the Sovereign rocks beyond by Oysterhaven. Yes, indeed, the place is as evocative as the place names suggest. Back when Bluebell Cottage was first built, Sandycove was home to only a handful of cottages and some workmanlike houses. It had a small burst of development in the 1960s, and again in the past few years, with some cool and trendy homes slotting in among the more usual big dormers — and the best of viewing spots always command good prices. One of the latest, a house called Oz, sold in 2010 for a reported €900,000 plus, and even cottages can fetch c€400k.

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3 Well dressed. Go with a colour theme like this blue crockery to make the most of your dresser.

4 Switch on. Things you use everyday should give tactile and visual pleasure, like this brass light switch.

5 Sit pretty. If you’ve a view like this to enjoy, eat and drink it in.

6 If you’ve the room, make your hall a feature room. Note the ceiling beams.

It has the best of views over Sandycove Island to Kinsale harbour and the mouth of the Bandon river, and to the Sovereign rocks by Oysterhaven.

General Sandycove and island views.

Elsewhere in the house, cosiness comes from fresh new wool carpets, such as in the bedrooms, and heating is oilfired, via a brand new efficient condenser boiler. Windows are in dark woodgrain effect pvc and double glazed, and fascias and soffits are also in wood-grain effect low maintenance materials. Bluebell Cottage is going to be an easy house to keep, its sloping one-third acre is lowmaintenance, without any lawns, with rockeries and raised beds, well-planted, plus there’s a small water feature pond by the steep concrete

drive up to the house and parking area, literally a small drop compared to the vast ocean 100 yards away downhill. If there’s a downside, it is that drive’s steepness, it will take nervous drivers a small bit of getting used to — but it means you can park by the door, something not an option when it was built day one as a modest council cottage. VERDICT: You could sit and admire the views all day long, from the sun room, from the deck, or from the deck of a boat moored just off Sandycove’s shingle beach.

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Sandcove, Kinsale €775,000 165 sq m (1,800 sq ft) 3/4 Pending Kinsale proximity and island views

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1 Flotsam and jetsam always works in a seaside setting, here an old ceramic hot water bottle works as a still-life with shells and beach pebbles.

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3 Well dressed. Go with a colour theme like this blue crockery to make the most of your dresser.

4 Switch on. Things you use everyday should give tactile and visual pleasure, like this brass light switch.

5 Sit pretty. If you’ve a view like this to enjoy, eat and drink it in.

6 If you’ve the room, make your hall a feature room. Note the ceiling beams.

It has the best of views over Sandycove Island to Kinsale harbour and the mouth of the Bandon river, and to the Sovereign rocks by Oysterhaven.

General Sandycove and island views.

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■ Go all out with the log cabin look and complete your interior with a witty furniture piece like this railway sleeper coffee table with railroad wheels (€1,100 at Aoki Interiors)

Cabin fever

Ditch that minimalist designer look in favour of a comfortable piece of homely goodness, writes Carol O’Callaghan

WASH as we are with colour and its opposite of clean white minimalism, it seems there’s room for something else too, a look that is actually less about “the look”, and more about an emphasis on comfort; after all, we’re still in the thick of winter when all white, clean lines and sharp angles really don’t cut the mustard. Given how great an influence American house styles and sizes have been in recent years, log cabin style is one that can lend itself very well to our love of open beams, high ceilings and feature walls finished in stone and brick. But before you start imagining versions of Grizzly Adams’ humble abode with its furniture roughly hewn from trunks of trees felled by the grizzly one himself, or the parsimonious simplicity of the Little House on the Prairie, think again as this is a look that speaks of warmth and the cosy comfort of chunky furniture, bold textiles and muted colours carried off with simplicity and lack of fuss. Above all, it’s one to appeal more to home and hearth lovers rather than design aficionados. If you have the money to implement log cabin design elements, consider wood panelling, exposed ceiling beams in dark or weathered wood, a stone wall, a brick fireplace, built-in shelves and wide plank hardwoods on the floor. But if the budget doesn’t stretch to that, furniture, and our reliable friend the accessory, can bring elements of this rustic simplicity to your home. Consider furniture pieces with straight lines, painted finishes and little or no ornamentation. Also look with a new eye at antiques and family heirlooms, and if you fancy an excursion, the car boot sale and flea markets

are great places to pick up pieces at affordable prices. They may need a little work done on them but that’s part of the fun and gives you a chance to put your own mark on a piece. When it comes to accessories, opt for hand-made and country-style like baskets, carved wooden bowls, pottery, and metals such as hand-made wrought iron pieces. Also consider enamel kitchen wares as they have all the effectiveness of cooking in metal but are a much more lightweight option for lifting out of ovens. Checked and striped patterns printed on calico fabric add visual interest and colour to an understated country room. Upholstery on sofas, chairs, and windows are typically neutral with accent fabrics featuring patterns of plaid, stripe or check. An open fire is another feature integral to the look, and even though we’re attempting to be more eco friendly, as a nation we haven’t yet considered breaking off our love affair with solid fuel. Place a large basket beside the fire filled with blocks, or stack them from floor upwards for more authenticity. Pick up an old deer head from a junk shop or some in-vogue faux antlers to put on the chimney breast, hang up your beaver skin hat and stretch out in front of the fire as a storm rages outside.

Choose chunky and hard-wearing products to achieve the log cabin look. Try some baskets for logs, sticks and briquettes by the fire (from €8 at Dunnes Stores).

Above: Hang sturdy pots and pans rustic style from the kitchen ceiling (pans from €24 at House of Fraser). Left: Flour sack and calico type fabrics lend themselves to cushions for your log cabin interior (Wilson cushions by Linum from The Drapery Shop €45).

A good quality cast iron pan is perfect for cooking up the vittles (by Jasper Conran, €53).

Lovely strong stripes and zig-zag patterns are a feature of log cabin style and bring a touch of colour and life to an otherwise simple, rustic interior (Arizona and Zig Zag towels from €7 each at M&S).

Strong wooden handles and rivets feature in the Ikea Rustick range of four knives, forks, large spoons and teaspoons (€29.99)

Wooden hearted Chunky furniture and accessories with a rustic appearance.

Opt for simple, wholesome rusticity with the Bark candle holder (from M&S €6).

For sturdiness and function check out the Portland console from EZ Living @ Right Price (€399).

■ Next week we help you deal with the shortcomings of your cooking utensils and appliances while the sales are still on. Right: Stone walls are a feature of the log cabin look but can be softened for those who like a more feminine touch with neutral rugs and fabrics (Moda rug €50, heart tea light holder from €5, throw €12, Butterfly duvet from €30 at Heatons).

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Hang a witty sign in the hallway like the Love Shack (from Debenhams €22.50). Try storing dried goods in traditional jars with screw top lids and label them old-style (re-useable pantry label stickers €46 www.garrendennylane.ie).

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■ Go all out with the log cabin look and complete your interior with a witty furniture piece like this railway sleeper coffee table with railroad wheels (€1,100 at Aoki Interiors)

Cabin fever

Ditch that minimalist designer look in favour of a comfortable piece of homely goodness, writes Carol O’Callaghan

Choose chunky and hard-wearing products to achieve the log cabin look. Try some baskets for logs, sticks and briquettes by the fire (from €8 at Dunnes Stores).

A good quality cast iron pan is perfect for cooking up the vittles (by Jasper Conran, €53).

Strong wooden handles and rivets feature in the Ikea Rustick range of four knives, forks, large spoons and teaspoons (€29.99)

Wooden hearted Chunky furniture and accessories with a rustic appearance.

Opt for simple, wholesome rusticity with the Bark candle holder (from M&S €6).

For sturdiness and function check out the Portland console from EZ Living @ Right Price (€399).

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Make a no-zip envelope cushion

An instant wake-up for any interior, you can fashion cushion covers from any nonstretch material, vintage or new. Keep an eye on the shifting fare in the remnant baskets of our local fabric shop. WHAT YOU NEED: ■ A 40cm X 40cm cushion or cushion liner. ■ A non fraying, non-stretch material to cover your cushion. Around half a metre. ■ A sewing machine or (sigh) needle and thread ■ Some pretty ribbon

You can complete your sentimental journey at home, writes Kya deLongchamps, by mixing some personal stuff

HERE’S one style that politely re-introduces itself at least every five years. It may be described as country casual, light romantic, nostalgic, vintage. This year according to the Trend Book, a design industry standard for what’s happening in interiors, it’s simply termed ‘sentimental style’. Whatever it’s dubbed this look is reassuringly familiar, every time it comes to call. You can buy an entire room from a showroom floor, and many contemporary packages have a flat screen television thrown in to sweeten the add-water-and-stir experience. What these rooms do not include is any soul whatsoever. There’s no feeling of accumulation, of having collected and placed things that are truly personal. Older things, things that look like they were handmade or even homemade, appeal to our deeper senses, the part of us that longs for the uncomplicated comfort and memories of home. CYCLES OF STYLE Forty years ago, a nostalgic look would pick up period cues from the 1940s and decades before synthetic materials, gleaming appliances and modern popular styling swept away Edwardian and Victorian classics. Baby boomers wanted their comfy front rooms, scrubbed pine tables and childhood toys back. Dated furniture, worthy or not, heaped into skips in the 1950s was enthusiastically fished out of landfills and auction rooms in the 1970s. Art Deco and Art Nouveau became popular yet again. In the 21st century, we ‘discovered’ the hip creations of mid-20th century, found we love minimalism and are creating our own era of interiors. Still, the influence of the quietly styled, traditional, fuzzy-edged room, layered with years of family living in unassuming vintage pieces, remains a popular choice, even if it’s reserved for intimate escapes like the bedroom. Sentimental style, is really quite daring, as it bares a little of your heart. It’s unpretentious, contented, inviting, and it sings out something about who you really are and your deeper response to the things around you.

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casual, or flirt with the romance of French Provincial. The atmosphere will be the same. It’s lighter in tone than say the vintage style of the 1960s to 1980s where sofas were barricaded in pneumatically blossomed cushions, every curtain strangled in pelmets and tie backs, twee ornaments wrestled together on every surface. Today, we know that less is more, and that lesson is surviving as we discover that it not only looks better to have less stuff and reduce the visual chatter of patterns, but it’s far easier to live with.

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MIX IT UP There’s nothing to say you can’t mix up some contemporary favourites with older things, even antiques, but rude urban chic in glass, chrome and jet blacks will sit uneasily in this roomscape. It doesn’t have to be chokingly feminine, but think charming rather than challenging. Looking around the major retailers, you’ll soon spot the sentimental quarter in their collections. IKEA, for example, dub it Light Romantic, with brass beds, drifts of blossom and a white ground lifting even very modern lines to ethereal heights of romance. There’s nothing wrong with shop-bought sentiment, it’s how you feel that counts. Pick up some lavender bags next time you’re in the chemist and throw them into your linen drawers. One single breath and you’ve begun that sentimental journey at home.

Classic White Rover Chair. Scotty dogs in taupe and floral pattern deliver a quirky piece of furniture on a classic frame in a hallway or living room. Price on application. www.sweetpeaandwillow.ie.

Ten laidback budget tips to relax a room

1 A nostalgic interior served up fresh and affordably by IKEA, featuring Leirvik bed-frame. €139 for a King. Emelina Knopp quilt set, €25.99 also for a King size.

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YESTERDAY TODAY Today, you can take get sentimental over post-war printed fabrics, home hewn American Shaker, indulge in the enduring appeal of English country

Left: Style reborn. Jennifer Hanley’s stunning reinterpretation of a classic side table. Up-cycling with careful hand painting is an ideal way to celebrate solid but aesthetically tired furniture. Price on application. www.refoundonline.com. Right: Fragrant with possibilities and hitting that beloved chintzy theme, we love this spring-themed posie cushion. Dunnes Stores, nationwide. €35.

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Lighten up. Paintwork even taken as far as pure white, adds purity and simplicity, plus it will amplify light, bouncing it around the room. Add pale flooring or carpets. Natural light diffused through sheers will illuminate every corner on dull days, and be gentle on the eyes even on the brightest afternoon. Recycling and up-cycling used furniture, (the latter being where you actually create something potentially more valuable by playing about with it), are of the moment and ideal for the gentle embrace of sentimental surroundings. Err on the side of chic over shabby. Rather than over-enthusiastically restoring second hand roses, celebrate structurally firm furniture and accessories with honest wear (from being actually used, cleaned and loved) to put some naturally occurring history into the room. Foxed mirrors with their silver tarnished soften a reflection. Irregular natural materials are highly celebrated at the top of today’s design tree, and wood is reappearing everywhere from the bathroom to the boardroom. Timber, both revealed and painted is key to furnishings. Keep things informal and practical and you can really relax in a sentimental room. Loose covers are ideal for a relaxed family room and as cotton is washed it becomes buttery soft. Hard flooring is so easy to keep and healthier too. Texture, with soft inviting throws and strokable luxurious materials even in small amounts, adds a sensual edge to a room. Look through hand me down quilts, old blankets and second hand textiles for items

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to fold and leave to hand for cooler nights. When not in service, heap them neatly in pound shop woven baskets. Take the focus off the electronics. Don’t let the room be a temple to television. Find another centre, such as a great fireplace, bay or architectural nesting spot. Grouping the furniture differently can get the family talking instead of staring, slack jawed into space each night. Get personal. If you’re not selling, then let your life into the room with grouped family photos in disparate frames. If you have a collection of anything from tin toys to old vinyl, explore eclectic ways to display it. Frame up a large painting by one of your children. Found materials can act out as diminutive artworks. Try your hand by heaping lovely beach stones in a generous bowl. Chintz never really went out of style, and has been reinterpreted in the work of designers including Orla Kiely and Cath Kidson. Nature is an essential cue for the sentimental space. Put a bouquet here and there in cushions, window treatments, and a single feature chair cover. In the bedroom, floral scattered bed linen in Scandinavian fresh open sprays is utterly gorgeous. Fresh flowers should be a regular gift to yourself.

The great resin cheat. There are lamps, sculptures, framed mirrors and thousands of hefty accessories available in sharply moulded resins that mimic painted and gilded wood. Surprisingly convincing, you can add a dash of vintage without breaking the bank. One or two signature pieces are enough.

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Cut your material into three pieces. For the front of the cushion you need one square (44cm x 44cm). For the back of the cushion you need two rectangles (44cm x 30cm). Using the long edge of one of the rectangles, turn it over a couple of times (2cm) and make a neat seam. This will be the visible opening along the back of your cushion. Take the three pieces and lay them face to face, so that the cover is inside out. Pin the pieces together along the edge of the cover, so that the two back rectangles slightly overlap on their long edge. That neat seam will be on show. Stitch the three panels together at the outer edges. Make a couple of careful snips out of the excess material at the corners (to help make them pointy) and turn the cover right side out. Sew pieces of your ribbon on either side of the back split at two to three places. Insert inner cushion and tie shut.

Go Further: Experiment with applying more detail to your front panel. Iron-on appliqué is quick and easy for a comfortable country look.

Q&A

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Q. How do I make a bid at a furniture auction? I’m afraid the auctioneer won’t see me, but I don’t want to make a fool of myself. A. A clear raise of your rolled-up catalogue for the first bid is ideal. Once you’ve been spotted, a nod of the head for following bids will generally be enough. Have your bidding number ready to give to the auctioneer. Q. I never seem to find the cheap and cheerful bargain furniture I’m always hearing about when I go to country house sales and auctions. How do I get that great deal?

Q. Are there used items I should avoid buying at auctions? What if I buy a fake? A. Secondhand electrical goods must be checked out carefully before use. Anything sold as ‘in the style of’ will not be what it’s pretending to be, and obviously anything damaged will take extra work and investment. Fees at auction can bump up the price on an immovable lump of bargain furniture. Don’t get auction fever for something you haven’t really viewed. It is illegal to sell outright fakes.

A. Every sale is unique. Give yourself plenty of time to view and the entire day to bid. In a bog standard antique auction, the beginning is often a quick warm up of middling pieces to get bids flowing and the end is promising as dealers can have filled their vans and spent their funds. It’s about patience, a dash of luck and going to all the sales you can.

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Classic White Rover Chair. Scotty dogs in taupe and floral pattern deliver a quirky piece of furniture on a classic frame in a hallway or living room. Price on application. www.sweetpeaandwillow.ie.

Ten laidback budget tips to relax a room

1 A nostalgic interior served up fresh and affordably by IKEA, featuring Leirvik bed-frame. €139 for a King. Emelina Knopp quilt set, €25.99 also for a King size.

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Go Further: Experiment with applying more detail to your front panel. Iron-on appliqué is quick and easy for a comfortable country look.

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I’ve decided to give my home a makeover for 2012, but I have no idea where to start — where can I find some inspiring ideas?

A. Everyone faces redecorating at some time or another — and though a daunting prospect, the best advice is to think positive and get organised! Start by creating a design file for each of the rooms you intend to overhaul and stick in pictures or samples of anything that floats your boat. There are any number of glossy interior design magazines out there to help you decide — but you don’t have to spend a cent to be struck by a bolt of inspiration. Search the web, dig through your wardrobe or visit art galleries to get an idea of the styles, colours and textures you like. The important thing is not to get overwhelmed by the myriad of choices available to you — be brave and have fun. Q. We’re replacing the worn-out furniture in our sitting room — in your opinion, is fitted or free-standing furniture better? A. Provided the free-standing piece fits the space in question properly, I’m all for it. However, as most homes have awkward corners — such as odd-sized alcoves on either side of the fireplace — standard store-bought furniture rarely fits perfectly. This can leave the room feeling uncomfortable and disorganised, so most of my clients tend to go for fitted furniture. As well as being made to fit, the beauty of bespoke furniture is that it can be made to suit the style and colour of the room too. Generally, larger

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Q. I read somewhere that ‘Tangerine Tango’ is the colour of the year for 2012 — but how can I apply the trend to my home? A. Each year, the Pantone Color Insititue in the US chooses its ‘Colour of the Year’ inspired by everything from fashion to art and technology. In recent years, the economic climate was reflected in the rise of more muted colours like cream and brown. But this year, the industry colour experts have elected this vibrant shade of orange to “provide the energy boost we need to recharge and move forward”. Chosen because of its “sophisticated and dramatic undertones”, Tangerine Tango looks great teamed with cool grey — try Farrow & Ball’s ‘Skimming Stone’ or ‘Pavilion Gray’. With such a bold hue remember to exercise restraint — a bold orange cushion or throw is enough.

Left: Fitted alcove units from €1,000 per linear metre, for more see www.donovanwalshdesign.com; above: Linea Beaded Baroque Cushion, €30, available from House of Fraser, Dundrum. Below: Le Creuset ‘Volcanic’ Oval Casserole dish, €119.96.

Q. I accidentally spilled some milk on the carpet last week — but there’s still a lingering smell. Help! A. There’s nothing worse than the smell of sour milk. Try baking soda to remove any remaining residue. Pour it on the stain and dampen it slightly to keep it in place. Allow it to stand for up to 24

hours and then vacuum up. Alternatively, sprinkle distilled white vinegar on the spill before rinsing clean with cold water a few hours later. Depending on how bad the odour is, you may have to pull back the carpet and treat the underlay too. Remember to patch test your carpet before trying any home remedies.

Every week Sue O’Connor picks her top three interiors sites. If you have a favourite you’d like to see featured, email: interiors@examiner.ie

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For a glimpse into the future check out this site. If you are in Copenhagen do drop by, it advises. Well we might not be that way for a while so instead let’s glide effortlessly through the delights of Scandinavian designs and Nordic charms. Slick photography promotes each product and the back story of how a cognac tumbler was designed would tempt you to buy one even if you are not partial to the beverage. Unusual items are in abundance on these pages and perfect for creating that Stieg Larsson-look to your home.

To get inspiration for your home a totter around this site to see what’s available may work for you. A wealth of fabrics, wallpapers, paints, furniture, trimmings and carpets all feature. Its wares are stocked in Irish stores so check out its listed stockists for one near you. Quality and elegance are to the fore here from this company who had its humble beginnings as a historic wall covering supplier. Posey wallpapers, posey embroideries and akita weaves along with tinto wools are order of the day in its new collection section.

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rooms can take more decorative pieces, whereas smaller rooms are better suited to simpler contemporary pieces. However, I love to mix ‘n match — pairing minimalistic furniture with a flamboyant Venetian-style mirror, for example.

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Flexible Love

If you do one thing online today type in ‘flexible love chair’ on www.youtube.com. This has a true wow factor. Its furniture has a “honeycomb” structure made from recycled paper and recycled wood waste. It can be adapted to sit one person or stretched out to park 16 people on it. The accordion-like quality allows each piece to be extended and collapsed with a simple pull of the side. It was designed by Taiwanese designer Chishen Chiu, but is available through Europe. ■ www.flexiblelove.com

An example of the flexible love chair which can expand and contract to sit from one to 16 people.

S THE cost of oil and gas (both LPG and natural gas) continue to spiral upwards, the financial demands of heating our homes has become a source of genuine anxiety for most of us and real hardship for others. Improvements in regulations when building or extending have helped homes to reach new heights in insulation and heating efficiencies. Still, with carbon taxes attached to oil and gas, for the vast majority, the bills are climbing stealthily year by year. There’s nothing we can do about market prices for fuel, apart from shopping around within the limits of the fuel our system runs on. We can’t all afford biomass boilers. One fuel type may suit you better for your lifestyle habits. No matter what your situation or fuel source, you can take greater control and save more money by developing consistent, new habits around space and central heating. The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) releases a domestic fuel comparison chart regularly, to allow consumers to assess the true cost of running their household heating based on what they are consuming. Taken from the latest EU Energy Price Directive Survey, and set out in cent per kilowatt hours (c/cWh), it’s easy to follow, as every fuel is judged in one simple unit (how much it costs for one unit of heat), and it includes recent government duty levels, and notes on things like standing charges for the hire of tank for storing LPG. It really is a useful guide at a glance. Keep in mind the oil prices are taken from bulk (1000l) deliveries bought from the latest deals online, something you should always consider before ordering home heating oil. If you’re burning wood, the supplier network makes it a bit tricky, but for the rest, the prices have real meaning. When you’ve recovered from the horrifying difference between heating with the luxuries of electricity, oil and LPG compared to the unit cost of natural gas and wood pellets, note the real ‘annual costs of heating a building’ depend on a list of conditions set out by the SEAI. Most of these we can change with very little investment and without taking a serious blow to our comfort levels. These include the temperature and time you run your system, the weather and insulation. ● Temperature levels maintained. If you can walk around the whole of your home in nothing but your undies, question if the heating is indulgently high. If you’re running the heating at 21ºC, try turning it down by just one degree to 20ºC. Chances are you won’t notice the change until your heating bills falls around 10%. Tip: For optimum results your system should be serviced annually. ● Duration of heating. Rather than leaving the heating running after you’ve slipped under the sheets, try

Choosing a stove over open fire

setting it to go off 20 minutes before you go to bed. In a well insulated house, its fabric will hold the heat sufficiently and radiate it back for you not to notice any change. That’s over 2 hours you’re not heating the house each week. Tip: Space and water heating should be independently controlled, so you can heat water without warming radiators. ● Weather conditions. If the sunshine is beating in the windows, warming the house nicely, trim the heating down. Thermostatically controlled systems (some even include outdoor sensors) will do this for you, but they are not infallible. Tip: Boiler timing controls, zoning the house into defined heating areas, and the entry level action of installing thermostatic radiator controls will help tailor and tame your fuel consumption. ● Insulation and draught proofing. Your home heating is only as good as the insulation keeping heat inside the house where it’s needed. An uninsulated attic for example will conduct about 30% of the heat in your house straight out through the tiling. A grant of €200 is available through the

SEAI Better Homes Scheme when you spend €400 or more on cosying up the attic. Tip: If you not in a position to spend this sort of money, taking steps from putting draught excluding tape on doors and windows to closing curtains will chip away at those escalating kilowatts. ■ The SEAI Fuel Comparison Charts can be found at http://www.seai.ie/Publications/ Statistics_Publications/ Fuel_Cost_Comparison/

‘If you can walk around the whole of your home in nothing but your undies, question if the heating is indulgently high.’

N OPEN fire is a luxury no one can afford, sending up to 70% of the heat produced by the burning of coal, wood or peat straight up the chimney, compared to 40% of the heat from a typical freestanding or inset stove. Because the air flow is tightly controlled, a stove used with the doors shut, has far higher efficiencies, producing more energy from the fuel burned and burning it completely down to a fine ash. There’s a slow leach of passive ventilation present, whether an open fire is alight or not, as the draught needed to make an open fire work also pulls air around the room up and out — something that can be vastly improved by shutting it behind a fire-door. The warmth that is retained in the room with an open fire carries a considerable amount of smoke and airborne dust into the living space, something far less troubling with a properly functioning stove or firedoor installed. A cool flow of air engineered to cross the glass of the stove will effectively “wash” away sticky resinous emissions during use, that can otherwise tempt us to pop open the doors and cripple energy efficiencies in wood burner or multi-fuel stove. Three hours after a cast iron stove has apparently “gone out” it will be radiating heat into the room from the body of the stove itself and some stoves (Esse for example), have clever convection technology to further warm the room. Some biomass (wood pellet) stoves don’t even need a proper chimney but can be vented through a relatively short flue straight out the rear wall. On the point of safety, an enclosed combustion chamber eliminates the potential for burning material and ash to spill out into the room. Link your stove to a back boiler and you even have the potential to run several radiators to heat other areas of the house.

Small but mighty, the Fionn solid fuel box style stove with hotplate and 9 kws of room heating from Stanley. stanleystoves.com

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Zoffany

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WEB WATCH 1

Interior designer Denise Walsh of Donovan Walsh Design Ltd in Limerick, www.donovanwalshdesign.com, answers your design dilemmas. Email your queries to interiors@examiner.ie

Flexible Love

An example of the flexible love chair which can expand and contract to sit from one to 16 people.

Choosing a stove over open fire

‘If you can walk around the whole of your home in nothing but your undies, question if the heating is indulgently high.’

Small but mighty, the Fionn solid fuel box style stove with hotplate and 9 kws of room heating from Stanley. stanleystoves.com

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GARDENNOTES ■ The winter garden of Hester Forde, Coosheen in Glounthaune, Co Cork, will open for the viewing of snowdrops and early spring bulbs on Saturday, January 28, and Saturday, February 11, from 11am. Snowdrops and spring bulbs for sale. Park on main road. Entry fee will aid Marymount Hospice.

Looking for something to banish the January blues out of your house? Carol O’Callaghan has put together some ideas that will bring something new to your space

■ Sunday’s Well Flower and Garden Club will hold their Annual Dinner on Wednesday at 7.15pm, in Greene’s Restaurant, MacCurtain St, Cork. Members only. ■ Ardfield/Rathbarry Gardening Club in Co Cork will host Sarah Leather who will speak on wellbeing for 2012 at their meeting on Thursday in the Parish Hall at 8pm. All welcome.

Opt for pretty bedroom storage for make-up and hair accessories with the Dunnes Stores tabbed floral boxes (from €3).

■ Bandon Flower Club, Co Cork, will hold their AGM on Monday at 8pm in the Munster Arms Hotel. This will be followed by a mini demonstration by Elizabeth O’Brien.

Indulge in a funky, conversation piece seat with the Flux Flat pack. It weighs only 3kg when assembled (€150 at Designist). A scene from the very successful Mallow Homes and Garden Show, which has now become a premier show-garden event, featuring permanent displays, free seminars, and rare plant sales.

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DEFY anyone, even diehard old gardeners, not to be moved by the utterly ravishing newness of January! Those who don’t garden may know it as the month of aches and pains, sniffles and catarrh, but in my book it’s the ‘New Year Gate’ which opens to let in the lengthening daylight. One could admire from the window, the remains of our late lamented summer — or, the reluctant gardener could take note of the many flower shows, seminars and open garden events marked in for the months ahead. This morning I outline a few for your perusal. SEMINAR; Snowdrops and other Spring Treasures is the title of one-day seminar to be held at Sandbrook House, one mile from Altamont Gardens,

Vintage-style kitchen containers are back in fashion like the Katie Alice sugar tin from Debenhams (€11.75).

Drink traditional tea in modern style with a Bodum Assam teapot (€20 at Brennans Cookshop).

Co Carlow on Saturday February 4, beginning at 9.30am with registration, tea coffee and biscuits. The first lecture entitled From Old to Gold will be given by Alan Street of Avon Bulbs, to be followed by Richard Bramley of Farmyard Nurseries (Wales) who will give an illustrated presentation on Heavenly Hellebores. After lunch at Sandbrook, Jim Almond will speak on Special Snowdrops and How to Keep Them before the group visits nearby Altamont Gardens to view the snowdrops and other spring bulbs with Paul Cutler (head gardener). Early booking is advisable. Contact Hester at 086-8654972 or Robert at 087-9822135. RARE AND SPECIAL PLANT FAIR; This annual event takes place just outside

WORK FOR THE WEEK

This Camelot 2 seater is one of pieces featured in Finline Furniture’s sale from January 27 to 29. It’s price is reduced from €1,508 to €950. See www.finlinefurniture.ie for more details.

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Coloured glass is in vogue and looks beautiful in the bedroom and sitting room (€12.75 from Williamson).

ID-WINTER: There were occasions lately when I grew tired of doing the wash-up behind steamed kitchen windows and trundling yet more coloured wrapping paper out into the recycling bin. I longed for normality and the chance to get outside. But in the open garden it’s midwinter. In the time span of a week it has turned cold but

Drogheda on the Boyne on Sunday, May 13, at Beaulieu House, Garden and Car Museum. Entry is €7.50 which includes access to the 4-acre walled garden. See www. beaulieu.ie. Do not confuse this fair with the Fota Rare Plant Fair which takes place at Fota Arboretum on Sunday, April 22. MALLOW HOMES AND GARDEN SHOW; The very popular and successful Mallow Homes and Garden Show takes place this year from Friday, June 22, to Sunday, June 24. A full article on the attractions will appear on this page nearer the dates outlined. RHS SHOWS; This year’s Chelsea Flower Show in London will take place from Tuesday, May 22, to Saturday May 26, inclusive. In

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Birmingham, the BBC’s Gardeners World opens on Wednesday, June 13 and concludes on Sunday, June 17. NATIONAL COUNTRY FAIR; There can’t be many family days out in Ireland that offer visitors the chance to spend time with Cossack horsemen, medieval knights, dogs and ducks, horses and ponies and even pot-bellied pigs! But that is what the thousands of people who will attend the National Country Fair in Borris House, in south Carlow, on August 4-5 can expect. It’s an occasion where all ages and backgrounds can try their hand at sports such as clay-pigeon shooting, archery, falconry and fishing, as well as equestrian and gundog events, horses and hounds, birds of prey displays and children’s pet shows.

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the mornings still dawn with a great splash of solemn pink bordering on apricot. A grim kind of beauty comes with the extremes of winter. CYCLAMEN: Venturing out I make mental count of flowers “still braving it out” but soon gave up because despite the neglect of autumn, there were so many. The vibrancy of life seemed

to pulse everywhere but most especially in the endlessly variable hellebore and dainty cyclamen, whilst the sharp scents of viburnum, and daphne (which is so good this winter) became instantly evident. STAY INSIDE: Winter can be very bleak, and for many growers little in the line of colour or scented blooms will

be evident in their gardens. The cold scene lying in wait does little to tempt them away from comfortable fireside chairs and entertaining television. I neither chide nor blame them, for winter is winter whether you live in a particularly mild county or one ravaged by hard frosts and cold winds. Today then, let’s stay inside.

■ Blackrock Flower and Garden Club, Cork, will meet for their AGM in the Ursuline Secondary School on Tuesday at 7.30pm. This will be followed by guest speaker Cllr Kieran McCarthy. ■ Cork Flower Club will hold their AGM on Tuesday in the Canon Packham Hall Douglas at 8pm. This will be followed by a slide presentation entitled Memories of Rockrohan by Richard Wood. ■ Mallow Flower and Garden Club in Co Cork will hold their 25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner in Springfort Hall on Friday next at 8pm. ■ Ballincollig Flower and Garden Club, Co Cork, will hold their AGM followed by a table quiz on Monday next at 8pm in the Oriel House Hotel, Ballincollig. Please note change of date. All members welcome. ■ The horticultural experts at Griffins Garden Centre, Dripsey, Co Cork, will be giving talks on garden needs for spring followed by a gourmet lunch on Monday, Wednesday and Friday next for €10. For more information, call 021-7334286. Also at Griffins, a new trailing variety, and a first for the pansy family, could transform baskets, tubs and containers over the coming months. They will soon be available in a range of colours. ■ New Season Seeds have arrived at Hosfords in Enniskeane, Co Cork. The range of flower, herbs and vegetable seeds are from the Suttons and Mr Fothergill range. When you purchase seeds or any gardening products at Hosfords, advice is available from the staff. ■ Ladysbridge and District Flower and Garden Club will hold their AGM on Monday next at 8pm in Garryvoe Hotel, Co Cork. Following this, guest speaker Natasha Harty will talk about environmental issues and EM liquid fertiliser. New members welcome.

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Looking for something to banish the January blues out of your house? Carol O’Callaghan has put together some ideas that will bring something new to your space

Opt for pretty bedroom storage for make-up and hair accessories with the Dunnes Stores tabbed floral boxes (from €3).

■ Bandon Flower Club, Co Cork, will hold their AGM on Monday at 8pm in the Munster Arms Hotel. This will be followed by a mini demonstration by Elizabeth O’Brien.

Put some spring in your step

Vintage-style kitchen containers are back in fashion like the Katie Alice sugar tin from Debenhams (€11.75).

Drink traditional tea in modern style with a Bodum Assam teapot (€20 at Brennans Cookshop).

WORK FOR THE WEEK

This Camelot 2 seater is one of pieces featured in Finline Furniture’s sale from January 27 to 29. It’s price is reduced from €1,508 to €950. See www.finlinefurniture.ie for more details.

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Coloured glass is in vogue and looks beautiful in the bedroom and sitting room (€12.75 from Williamson).

by Charlie Wilkins

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Anyone for political lip service? 28-piece set dates from the 19th century, reports Des O’Sullivan

political tea service is among the more unusual lots at a house sale in Charleville, Co Cork next Saturday. Auctioneer PJ O’Gorman will offer the 19th century 28 piece service at a sale for the representatives of the late PJ Murray on the premises at Old Park, The Turrets, Charleville. Made before 1891 the tea service contains portraits of eminent 19th century figures including Gladstone, Parnell, Dr

Croke, John Dillon, William O’Brien and Michael Davitt. The auction, of up to 200 lots, features antique furniture including a William IV card table, a Victorian sideboard, a two door glazed bureau bookcase and a four door bookcase, books of political interest and house and garden contents. Old Park is located near the centre of Charleville. There will be viewing on the premises next Friday

from 2pm to 5pm and from 11.30am to the start of the sale at 2pm on this day week. In nearby Doneraile auctioneer Aidan Foley has a New Year sale of around 500 lots at 1pm next Saturday. The sale at the Old Schoolhouse will include period and later furniture, antiques, collectibles, porcelain, glass and prints. Viewing is from 2pm to 8pm next Friday and from 11am next Saturday.

An example from the political tea service at PJ O’Gorman’s sale in Charleville next Saturday, January 22.

Somerville landscape for sale

landscape entitled The Orchard by the west Cork painter, illustrator and writer Edith Somerville (1858-1949) features at Dolan’s art auction at Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork at 3pm on Sunday week, January 22. The artist — best known as co-author with her cousin Violet Martin of Some Experiences of an Irish RM — studied with Whistler in Paris. A suffragette, she was president of the Munster Women’s Franchise League, as well as

being master of the West Carbery Foxhounds and organist at St Barrahane’s Church in Castletownshend from 1875 to 1945. She designed the mosaic for St Barrahane’s, her work was exhibited at the Irish Arts Society in Cork in 1883-84 and at the RHA in 1889. The Orchard, an oil on board, is estimated at €1,400-€1,800. Viewing is from 10am to 9pm this Friday and Saturday, January20/21 and The Orchard by Edith from 10am to 3pm on the day of the Somerville at Dolan’s art sale, Sunday, January 22. auction in Cork on January 22.

OLD PARK, THE TURRETTS, CHARLEVILLE, CO. CORK. CLEARANCE AUCTION OF ANTIQUE FURNITURE & EFFECTS

IN BRIEF There will be a combined antiques market and classic car fair at Limerick Auction Rooms, Ballysimon Road from 9.30am to 5pm tomorrow. It will feature art and antiques, books, banknotes, coins, military memorabilia, glassware and clocks. Also, there will be an auction at Limerick Auction Rooms next Saturday, Jan 21. ................................................................. . The 58th Winter Antiques Show, the Armoury Show, takes place at Park Avenue Armoury at 67th St in Manhattan, New York city from January 20-29. Datelines for fine and decorative art have been extended to 1960 over the last couple of seasons, even later for some objects. ................................................................. . Bonhams, London have put an estimate of £100,000-£150,000 (€120,00 to €180,000) on a farewell letter written in the Antarctic by Capt Robert Scott. It is the first of the farewell letters written by Scott as he realised that he and his team would not survive.

The sale is on March 30. The letter was found on his body in November 1912. ................................................................. . Lynes and Lynes’ opening sale of 2012 is on Saturday, January 28 at noon at Eastlink Business Park, Carrigtwohill, Co Cork. ................................................................. . An exhibition of work by The White Stag Group runs at the James Adam Salesroom, St Stephen’s Green until February 3. The White Stag was a group of artists centred around the painters Basil Rakoczi and Kenneth Hall. Founded in London in 1935, the group moved to Ireland in 1939 and stayed until just after the Second World War. It gained a number of Irish members that included Thurloe Conolly, Paul Egestorff, Stephen Gilbert and Dorothy Blackham. Curated by David Britton, most of the work is for sale, at prices from €475 to €12,000. The exhibition was first shown at Clandeboye, Northern Ireland late last year and 26 works were sold. A further 20 works have been added to this show.

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EARLY VIC SIDEBOARD, WILLIAM IV CARD TABLE,VIC LIBRARY BOOKCASE, VIC BUREAU BOOKCASE, DINING TABLE, SET OF 4 & 7 DINING CHAIRS, VIC SIDE CABINET, PR VIC HALL CHAIRS, LADIES WRITING DESK, VIC NURSING CHAIR, VIC TILT TOP BREAKFAST TABLE, CARVED OAK DUMBWAITER, CORNER CABINET, ETAGERE, TANTALUS, ORNATE WALL MIRROR, VIC DRESSING MIRRORS, BEDROOM FURNITURE, HALL STAND, OCC TABLES, WORK TABLE, MARQUETRY INL CHAIR, BEDROOM FURNITURE, VIC CAST IRON GARDEN SEAT, LATE 19TH CENT IRISH POLITICAL COMMEMORATIVE PART CHINA TEA SET, BRASS, GLASS, CHINA, EL APPLIANCES, LAWNMOWER, BOOKS (GENERAL & HISTORICAL TO INCLUDE MICHAEL COLLINS BIOGRAPHIES) VIEWING FRIDAY JAN. 20TH 2 P.M. TO 5 P.M. ALSO DAY OF SALE FROM 11.30 A.M. NO CHILDREN ALLOWED TO VIEW OR AUCTION. ADMISSION BY CATALOGUE.

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ANTIQUE AUCTION in Doneraile, Co. Cork Auction on Saturday 21st January @ 1pm

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ANTIQUES & FINE ART

ADVERTISING

Anyone for political lip service? 28-piece set dates from the 19th century, reports Des O’Sullivan

An example from the political tea service at PJ O’Gorman’s sale in Charleville next Saturday, January 22.

Somerville landscape for sale

OLD PARK, THE TURRETTS, CHARLEVILLE, CO. CORK. CLEARANCE AUCTION OF ANTIQUE FURNITURE & EFFECTS

TO ADVERTISE IN THIS SECTION PLEASE CALL OR EMAIL Ger Duggan Tel: 021-4802192 email: interiorads@examiner.ie ��

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ON SATURDAY JANUARY 21ST AT 2 P.M. ON THE PREMISES TO INCLUDE:

P.J.O’GORMAN M.I.P.A.V. AUCTIONEER, CHARLEVILLE. TEL: 063-81407

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FURNITURE AUCTION & TAG SALE

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26 COOK ST CORK ∙ 021-4273327 ∙ www.woodward.ie

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AIDAN FOLEY ANTIQUE & FINE ART AUCTIONEER

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LYNES & LYNES

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Several house clearances furniture and effects. Enquiries - Lynes & lynes Auction Rooms Eastlink Business Park Carrigtwohill Co. Cork

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www.lynesandlynes.com Tel. 021-4389998 Mobile 087-2531580

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For fully illustrated catalogue go to www.irishcountryhome.com VIEWING in our Auction Rooms: Friday 20th January (2-8pm) and the morning of the sale from 11am to start of sale at 1pm.

Next Auction Sat 28th Jan at 12 Noon

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Items now Invited for inclusion. WOODWARDS AUCTION ROOMS

The Old Schoolhouse Auction Rooms, Doneraile, Mallow, Co. Cork. 022-72992/086-8290680

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ANTIQUE AUCTION in Doneraile, Co. Cork Auction on Saturday 21st January @ 1pm

P.J.O’GORMAN HAVING ALREADY SOLD THE PROPERTY IS FURTHER INSTRUCTED BY THE REPS OF P.J.MURRAY DECEASED TO CONDUCT THE ABOVE AUCTION

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LOOKING TO ATTRACT AN EAGER NEW AUDIENCE OF BUYERS FOR YOUR PROPERTY? We’ll be bringing 100’s of properties to London on Saturday 4th February 2012. If you want this audience to know about your property, call your local office.

VENUE DATE TIME

The Copthorne Tara Hotel, Kensington, London Saturday 4th February 2012 1pm to 4pm

Bandon

Clonakilty

023 885 4444

Fermoy

023 883 3995

Cork City

021 427 3041

Mallow

025 32725

Carrigaline

021 437 2384

Youghal

022 42651

Macroom

026 41165

024 92595

Midleton

021 462 1166