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Kilteelagh House, Dromineer, County Tipperary, E45 YT97, Ireland

£2,378,200
€2,750,000
Sherry FitzGerald, Country Homes, Farms and Estates
PROPERTY TYPE

Detached

BEDROOMS

8

SIZE

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Description

An attractive Victorian mansion magically positioned within some 25 acres or 10.1 hectares on the shores of Dromineer Bay, with a boat house and direct access onto Lough Derg. Shannon airport is just 76km(approximately a one hour drive).

Enjoying an idyllic waterfront position within a highly regarded and sought after location on Lough Derg the situation of Kilteelagh House is magical. Arguably the best positioned historic house on Lough Derg there is a great sense of privacy, the house being positioned deep within its lands and only viewable from the water. Set within mature Victorian designed gardens the vistas from the house are superb, over wild flower meadows to the vast expanses of the lake to the north and well-timbered mature parkland to the south.

Accommodation within the house extends to some 10,904 square feet or 1,013 square metres and includes 5 reception rooms and 8 bedrooms. The grounds include a substantial boat house, a stabling block and machinery shed and numerous mature shrubs and trees.

Kilteelagh House enjoys a remarkable position on Lough Derg, with mature parkland protecting the house from the public road and ensuring privacy. Whilst private the house is nearby to Dromineer village. Built in circa 1863 in the High Victorian Gothic style Kilteelagh House comprises two storeys of accommodation over a small basement level. Most attractive with an exposed stone exterior and high-pitched slate roof with a distinctive polychrome pattern on the slates the house enjoys a splendid position, enjoying tremendous lake views and all the principal rooms having a bright south or west facing orientation. Inside the accommodation benefits from generous room proportions, tall ceilings and large windows to provide spacious and bright accommodation. Exquisite features include ornate cornicing and central rose plasterwork, fine wide plank timber flooring boards, carved timber architraves to doors and windows complete with the original window shuttering.

An entrance porch leads into a fine reception hall, which is linked through a large open archway to the inner stair hall and has interconnecting doors into the study, drawing room, dining room and a rear passage hall. The stair hall is wonderfully bright, being lit from a large Venetian style window, and has an ornately carved timber staircase that leads to upstairs. The drawing room and study interconnect in the Victorian double-drawing-room style with concealed sliding timber doors linking the rooms. Combined they present a splendid entertaining space and benefit from windows along 3 sides, providing good natural light throughout the day. There are fine marble chimneypieces and decorative plasterwork ceiling cornices and central roses in each room and the larger drawing room has a raised plinth seating area with commanding lake views. The dining room faces northwest and enjoys sunset lake views and again has strong ceiling plasterwork and a strikingly coloured marble chimneypiece. The family room is a cosy space with a solid fuel stove and coved ceiling. The kitchen is adjacent to the family room and occupies 3 former rooms that now openly interconnect to create a modern open plan style kitchen, albeit with period character and an open fireplace.

A generous landing hall on the first floor leads to all the principal bedrooms. The Master Bedroom Suite has a large bedroom with magnificent lake views from a bow or bay window, a dressing room and a bathroom. There are 4 further large principal bedrooms on the first floor and 2 bathrooms and another bedroom on the ground floor. A courtyard apartment on the lower ground floor provides 2 further bedrooms to give a total of 8 bedrooms within the house, although the office and boot room could combine to provide a further bedroom suite if required or the studio and gym used for bedroom accommodation. The Studio, situated in the courtyard immediately behind the house, includes an artist's studio, gym and games rooms and interconnects to the house ground floor from the upper level.

IDYLLIC GROUNDS
Approached from the south an impressive arched entrance with electric security gates leads through post and railed parkland to a gravelled forecourt in front of the house. The gardens surrounding the house retain the original Victorian design with numerous magnificent mature shrubs and trees. There is a seamless link to the wider parkland meadows and to Lough Derg itself. Like within the house, the presence of the lake is omnipresent with carefully placed seating areas throughout the gardens offering commanding and differing water views. A barbeque terrace has a large barbeque pit. Night lighting pleasantly lights up the exterior stone work of the house.

Mown grass paths lead from the house to a boat house on the lake side. The boat house has a harbour and there are 2 timber pontoons outside, each with seating. Equestrian facilities include a small stable block, a circular sand ménage and post and rail paddock grazing. A large barn is used for machinery storage but could easily provide additional stabling. The stabling and barns are situated nearby to the house and adjacent to a large garage block, which is insulated and has a mezzanine upper floor.

Kilteelagh House enjoys a remarkable position on Lough Derg within glorious private grounds with magnificent specimen ancient trees and easy access to Lough Derg and Dromineer Village.


Kilteelagh House, Dromineer, County Tipperary, E45 YT97, Ireland

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Distances are straight line measurements
  • Shannon(International)
    31.0 miles
  • Galway(International)
    37.5 miles
  • Connemara(Local)
    53.5 miles
  • Connemara(Local)
    54.2 miles
  • Waterford(International)
    71.8 miles

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About Sherry FitzGerald, Country Homes, Farms and Estates

176 Pembroke Road Ballsbridge Dublin D04 EN80

Looking at the company today and thinking back to its’ origins, it’s interesting to see how, in the 30 or so years since its formation, the business has now grown to become Ireland’s largest, fully diversified property advisory firm servicing the residential and commercial property markets. Sherry FitzGerald was founded in 1982 as a result of the amalgamation of 2 companies – FitzGerald & Partners (founded 1972) and Sherry & Sons (founded in 1949). Back in 1982 we had just one residential office on Merrion Row in Dublin 2 with a second office in Terenure not opening until 1989.

Despite the economic difficulties of the 1980’s, the company recruited for the future by forming a team of young property professionals who shared a common vision of a new type of auctioneering company. From the start, we practiced a strong gender balance philosophy, a philosophy we have continued to practice to this day. We understood the absolute prerequisite to have a strong ethical foundation, combined with a sense of unparalleled customer service. That is why, back then, we introduced a non-negotiable rule of not allowing anyone in the company to buy a second-hand house off our own books, coupled with introducing opening 7 days a week into what had traditionally been a ‘9.30 – 5.30 & closed for lunch’ industry. Our strap line in those early days was ‘the new generation of estate agents’ which subsequently evolved into ‘the agent you’d recommend to a friend’.

In 1992 we were the first organisation in the history of the State, outside the Department of the Environment, to provide coherent house price information to the general public and subsequently launched our Dublin house price index in 1996. Today we employ 4 economists and, through all the challenges of the greatest property crash in Europe, we kept our commitment to research and transparent information by not only retaining this function, but by further resourcing it. Our national property index, launched in 1999, is a benchmark in terms of accurate reporting of house price trends. Every 3 months, over the last 15 years, this national index has been published without fear or favour.

In 1998 we opened our first office outside Dublin in Galway. In the same year we launched one of Ireland’s first property websites – www.sherryfitz.ie.

1998 also saw us consolidate our growing commercial presence by forming a joint venture company with the global property advisory firm DTZ Holdings – DTZ Sherry FitzGerald. Today DTZ Sherry FitzGerald is Ireland’s most successful and only nationwide commercial property advisor with offices in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick and an associated office in Belfast.

In 1999 we launched Ireland’s first ever national property franchise organisation. Today there are 66 Sherry FitzGerald franchise offices, providing property advice in every corner of Ireland.

In the same year the Group acquired the Ross McParland New Homes business which was subsequently rebranded Sherry FitzGerald New Homes.

The new century kicked off with the acquisition of Cork’s leading residential estate agency, Burton Crowley O’Flynn, later rebranded Sherry FitzGerald and now occupying a flagship office, housing both our Commercial and Residential business on Lapps Quay in the heart of Cork city.

The year 2000 also saw the launch of Mortgage Insight, later rebranded Sherry FitzGerald Financial Services, providing independent mortgage and financial advice.

In 2000 our Chief Executive, Mark FitzGerald, came up with the idea of launching a national property portal and led the process of putting together the team, the partners and the investors that made it happen, with the subsequent successful launch of MyHome.ie in 2001. MyHome.ie quickly became Ireland’s largest and most innovative property website and, 5 years after its launch, was acquired by the Irish Times.

Meanwhile, DTZ Sherry FitzGerald was growing rapidly. In 2004 the company acquired the niche commercial practice of CS Tierney O’Neill as well as further strengthening the Cork commercial business by acquiring the former Collier Jackson Stops office.

In 2005 Sherry FitzGerald successfully diversified into the U.K. market with the acquisition of the 150 year old, central and West London estate agency of Marsh & Parsons. In the following year, Marsh & Parsons acquired another London estate agency, Vanstons, which was rebranded Marsh & Parsons, and in the subsequent 5 years we grew this network to 14 London offices employing over 200 people. In 2011 we successfully sold the Marsh & Parsons business leaving the business debt free.

The timing of the Marsh & Parsons acquisition also helped to protect the Sherry FitzGerald parent business during the depths of the property crash, enabling us to keep all our own offices open and 200 people directly employed. This made us the largest Irish property business to emerge from the crash.

In 2006 we launched two community initiatives supported by the Sherry FitzGerald Foundation. Firstly, the "Your Home Away From Home" which saw us underwrite the purchase of 5 Fontenoy Street, Phibsboro for Temple Street Children´s Hospital to use as parents’ accommodation for two families 365 days a year. We subsequently arranged two successful 10km Walkathons to raise funds for the project. Secondly, we were instrumental in the establishment of Amawele - a new national charity which now twins 85 schools in Ireland with schools in the Eastern and West Cape of South Africa.

In 2008 we were chosen by Christie’s International Real Estate to be their exclusive affiliate in Ireland. This partnership gives sellers of prestige homes in Ireland access to international markets. Likewise we can also offer the owners of luxury property abroad access to local expertise when they come to sell, via the global Christie’s International Real Estate network.

In 2013, we acquired our two residential franchise offices in Galway and Limerick and opened our first Blackrock office in 2014. Since its foundation in August 1982, the Sherry FitzGerald Group has grown from a small fledgling company in one location to a nationwide, diversified business operating in 88 different locations. Currently we employ 315 people directly in our 22 owned offices across a diversified residential and commercial property business (18 residential, 4 commercial), alongside our franchise business with an additional 69 offices throughout Ireland, separately employing over 200 people. Sherry FitzGerald Group remains an Irish privately owned business and committed to leading the marketplace as we have done over the last 32 years.

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