Jordan Auctioneers is seeking offers in the region of £1 million (€1.27 million) for Aghern House Stud, a handsome early 19th century house adjoining Desmond Castle on 102 acres at Conna, near Fermoy.
Reached at the end of a mature beech-lined driveway, the house has a romantic setting in its own parkland, with land running down to the River Bride.
A simple two-storey late Georgian house, it has lain empty for at least 15 years and is now in need of complete refurbishment, according to selling agent Paddy Jordan.
It has a large hallway with a semi-circular vestibule, three reception rooms and a series of kitchens and pantries on the ground floor. There are six bedrooms, two bathrooms and store rooms on the upper floor. The grounds include an old stone courtyard with extensive stabling. There are three further yards with over 50 boxes, two barns, offices and tack rooms and a lunging ring.
The property has almost a mile of road frontage and a recessed entrance with its original two-room gate lodge.
At Riverstick, Co Cork, en route to Kinsale, a converted church with a dramatic interior is for sale at £600,000 (€769,000) through Burton Crowley and Flynn. Ballymartle House, which last came on the market in 1997, stands on half an acre of garden in a wooded setting off the main road.
Completely refurbished by the previous owners, and updated by the present owners, the house is in excellent condition. A dramatic plum-coloured hallway with a black and white chequered floor sets the scene.
It leads on into a superb 38-foot drawingroom-cum-diningroom with a high vaulted ceiling and two gallery staircases rising to the upper floor. Off this central room is a big country style kitchen with painted timber units and a terracotta tiled floor. Also at this level is a comfortable family room, a games room and a study.
The first floor has a self-contained area with two bedrooms and a shower room. There are two further bedrooms, both large rooms with en suite bathrooms.
A laundry room and a large sauna and shower room completes the accommodation.
Ballymartle was originally a Catholic church, built in the late 18th century before Catholic emancipation.
