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Dalkey house has great entertainment value
With a facade of local granite, a beautiful verandah and half an acre of gardens, Liosmor is one of Dalkey's great houses, says Joyce Hickey
€1.45m House with Yeats link is quite a picture
Dublin 4: Artist Jack B Yeats once lived in this beautifully proportioned, five bedroom house in Marlborough Road. Emma Cullinan reports
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Extended family home in good suburb
Castleknock: €1.1m: A large detached four-bedroom home located in a quiet cul-de-sac off the Castleknock Road is an ideal family home. Edel Morgan reportsSolid redbrick with plenty of scope for extension
Dublin 6: €1.5m: With all the completely renovated houses that have come on the market on nearby roads this year, 7 Palmerston Gardens offers quite a different opportunity.€2.25m High-spec trophy home
Rathmichael: Sandwiched between Shankill and the mountains and, like parts of Howth, deceptively rural, Rathmichael is one of the most highly sought-after locations in south County Dublin.Artist's cottage in a quiet, central street
Dublin 8: €440,000: Tucked in off busy Clanbrassil Street, Dublin 8, is a small row of artisan cottages. 8 Wesley Place, for sale by private treaty by Jackson Stops, for offers over €440,000, has retained its period charm, a world away from the traffic rushing by at the end of the street, which was drowned out by bird song on the Saturday morning I visited.
Competitive prices a commute from capital
Celbridge: from €290,000: A mix of high quality homes goes on sale this weekend in Celbridge and are likely to sell quickly writes Jack Fagan , Property EditorThe Oaks in growth area
Swords: from €237,000: First-time buyers familiar with MKN's popular Ridgewood development at Forrest Road, Swords, will be pleased to hear of a new phase launching this weekend with joint agents Hooke & MacDonald and Morton & Flanagan.Airy and light-filled apartments
Stepaside: from €329,000: The final block of apartments is being launched at Wingfield on the Enniskerry Road in Stepaside, Co Dublin, with prices starting at €329,000.Houses in tree-lined scheme near good beaches
Gorey: from €178,000: A development of 51 houses in Gorey, Co Wexford, is being launched this week through joint agents Sherry FitzGerald Myles Doyle and Sherry FitzGerald O'Leary Kinsella, with prices from €178,000.Stylish modern homes certain to cause a stir
Malahide: from €495,000: These modern and sassy homes should appeal to young, professional, locals, writes Kate McMorrowCalling first-timers from the plans
Kilcock: from €237,500: Selling from plans this week with Hamilton Osborne King is a new development of two and three-bedroom houses at Chambers Park, Kilcock, Co Kildare.Apartments with mountain views
Sandyford: from €305,000: A new phase of 32 two-bedroom apartments at the Castle Court, Kilgobbin Wood development in Sandyford, Dublin 18 is being launched this week through Hooke & MacDonald with prices starting from €305,000.Large homes in redbrick scheme
Kilcock: from €264,950: The Douglas Newman Good agency is selling three and four-bedroom houses at Brayton Park, a development of houses and apartments at Kilcock, Co Kildare. Show units are open for viewing this weekend on Saturday and Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.Suburbia becomes arcadia
City Living: Survey results look to good to be true, writes Edel Morgan
Take five @ around €1.4m
Property Team JB Kelly is seeking €1.4 million for Ashvale, a four-bedroom detached house at Windgate Rise, Howth, Dublin 13 Kate McMorrow finds properties at a similar price in France, Australia, Central America and the UK
Country stud with generous space and views
Co Wicklow: €3.9m: A fine Georgian mansion sits at the centre of the Redcross equestrian centre and farm, writes Anne DempseyAn enchanting reminder of times past
Co Carlow: €850,000: Any notion that the entire province of Leinster has been turned into a commuter dormitory town serving the country's capital is firmly disproved by the Old Rectory at Fenagh, Co Carlow.Former presbytery retains a special spirit and charm
Co Westmeath: €900,000: A former presbytery with a gate lodge which was the holiday home of actor Cyril Cusack and his family for years has come onto the market in Castletown Geoghegan, Co Westmeath.
The bureaucracy behind house buying
The thrill that follows an offer being accepted on a house can be sufficiently large to overshadow the various tasks that must be done before the house purchase can be completed.
Clarence Hotel hopes to add more rooms
The Clarence Hotel is looking to expand its premises into 9-12 Wellington Quay and 9 Essex Street East, Dublin 2, because it needs additional bedrooms, suites and conference facilities to enable it to function successfully, according to CMB Architects, who are involved in the revamp.Social centre stays
Christchurch Residents' Association has lost its bid to overturn planning permission for the retention of a Portakabin to the rear of Adam and Eve Church on Merchants Quay Ireland's (MQI) premises in Dublin's city centre - which runs a homeless and drug users support service.Planning and Development
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Now, after the monument, here's the book
Dublin's Spire, described as an "ideologically 'Teflon' monument", is the subject of a new book by its architect, writes Frank McDonald , Environment Editor
Felt creations with a feel-good factor
What they do Cathy Villiers, textile designer: Although not long out of college, Cathy Villiers is already expanding her company to cope with demand for her felted fabricsEbony fashions floors for trend-setters
Shopfront: There are few enough Irish interiors brands that live up to any kind of hyperbole, but it's nothing short of amazing how quickly the flooring company Ebony & Co has built a following in Europe and the US.Swede dreams
Shopfront: Despite its familiar New England, Patrician, WASP-y marketing style (hello Ralph Lauren) and the fact that it has the same name as a Boston town, the Lexington bedlinen range is actually from Sweden.
Gardens gobbled up in development surge
Properties with large gardens in good suburbs are achieving incredible prices because of their development potential as planners allow for higher housing densities. Edel Morgan reports
