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‘ One of Ireland’s finest coastal residential estates’ comes with luxurious five-bedroom palace
Out of the ordinary: Carniseal, built in the 1990s on Donegal’s Fanad Peninsula, is on 46ac of land and is guided at €2.75m
Carniseal has 600m of shoreline on Lough Swilly.
Carniseal is on the Fanad Peninsula, 14km north of Letterkenny.
The sitting room is the less formal of two reception rooms.
The modern kitchen has a flagstone floor.
The drawing room has all the grandeur of another era.
The reception hall has a distinctly Georgian feel to it.
The modern shed is a steel portal-frame building in six bays on a concrete base.
The 46ac of land with Carniseal is in paddocks and suitable for grazing or fodder.
Unique is one of the favourite words in the lexicon of property descriptions. We are all attracted by the ‘once-off’, the singular — even the unusual will do.
C arniseal, a retro-period 7,009 sq ft house on 46ac with extensive shoreline on Donegal’s Lough Swilly could fit a few of these descriptions.
Built in the 1990s in a classical style, the dwelling is finished to a high standard.
It sits on a lovely site in a fine stretch of land bordered by the waters of the glacial fjord that separates the Fanad and Inishowen peninsulas.
Carniseal has 600m of shoreline on Lough Swilly.
The property is on the market by private treaty and guided by Savills at €2.75m.
Carniseal, Cairn Low, is at on the western shore of Lough Swilly 1.5km from Ramelton, 9km from Rathmullan, 14km north of Letterkenny and 46km from Derry.
The property is accessed through a bell-mouthed, stone entrance on the R247 Ramelton-Rathmullan road.
A driveway leads through 14ac of mature parkland and gardens to a cobblestone space at the front of the house.
The residence, with all the redolence of a previous age, would fit perfectly on the set of the TV period drama Bridgerton. A portico with Doric columns shelters a Georgian-style front door complete with fanlight.
Beyond a vestibule, a reception hall with a staircase at the centre leads to a galleried landing.
The reception hall has a distinctly Georgian feel to it.
A drawing room dripping with grandeur includes a decorative fireplace and a bay window with two sets of French doors leading to the garden.
The drawing room has all the grandeur of another era.
Two floor-to-ceiling windows face the front, and a door leads to the dining room — a well-lit, elegant space connected to the sunroom and the kitchen.
The sitting room is a smaller, more informal room with a pair of full-length windows to the front.
The sitting room is the less formal of two reception rooms.
Behind the sitting room is the fully fitted kitchen/ breakfast area, along with the utility room and a larder with access to a cellar suitable for storage. Other ground floor facilities include a guest WC.
The modern kitchen has a flagstone floor.
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Upstairs are a master bedroom suite with a bow window, four further bedrooms, a family bathroom and an office located over the portico, with windows on three sides.
A single-storey annex includes a shower room, a gym and a double garage.
Among the features found throughout are sash and case windows, timber panelling, flagstone flooring, decorative architraves, cornicing and ceiling roses.
The outdoors area is in mature parklands, lawns, shrubberies, flowers and 3ac of mixed deciduous trees.
The main outbuilding is a steel portal-frame shed in six bays on a concrete base with a tank underneath and secured by an up-and-over roller door.
The modern shed is a steel portal-frame building in six bays on a concrete base.
The land is made up of 32ac of ring-fenced grazing and silage ground accessed by a farm entrance with its own driveway. It comes with a Single Farm Payment.
Carniseal is on the Fanad Peninsula, 14km north of Letterkenny.
From the shore, it rises to a high point of 19 metres.
The eastern boundary is formed by about 600m of Lough Swilly shoreline; there is extensive road frontage.
The fields are divided by stud-rail fencing and hedging and are in good heart.
The 46ac of land with Carniseal is in paddocks and suitable for grazing or fodder.
Water is supplied from a combination of drinking troughs fed by mains water and a natural supply from streams.
James Butler of Savills describes Carniseal as “one of Ireland’s finest coastal residential estates”.
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