Picture a Sunday morning in late September. The kitchen window is open, and the smell of damp grass and woodsmoke drifts in from the garden. The trees at the back boundary — beech, oak, whatever the previous owners planted decades ago — have gone full amber. The kettle is on. Nobody on the road outside. This is what Cloncarhee feels like on an ordinary weekend, and it's far from ordinary.
Set on a genuinely private half-acre site in Clonlara, a quiet village in east County Clare, this five-bedroom detached red brick house sits at that rare intersection of total calm and genuine convenience. You're less than ten minutes from Corbally and the northern edge of Limerick City, yet standing in the back garden with the patio doors wide open, you wouldn't believe it. The mature planting — built up over years of careful gardening — wraps the property in a kind of natural insulation from the outside world. Hedgerows, shrubs, flowering trees. The kind of garden that took time to grow and would cost a fortune to recreate from scratch.
At 193 square metres across two floors, the house has the proportions of a proper family home — one that actually works for how people live now. The entrance hallway makes a solid first impression, with solid wood parquet underfoot that sets the tone before you've even looked left or right. The living room, to the left, is anchored by an open fireplace with a marble surround. On a January evening when the rain is hammering the windows, this is where everyone ends up. The dual-aspect windows pull in light from two directions, and French doors through to the dining room mean the ground floor has a flow to it that feels considered rather than accidental.
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