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Bungalows in Co Meath
Creewood, Slane €498K SHERRY FITZGERALD REILLY, (046) 906 0450
You might play a convincing game of five-a-side on the grounds of this stone-fronted house, which amount to just over 0.8 of an acre with a huge lawn. There’s a detached double garage which you might use for a home office. Built by its current owners, the house itself is 2,368 sq ft on two floors, with two ensuite bedrooms upstairs and two more downstairs (one ensuite). The ground floor also has an open-plan kitchen, dining room and living room that gives onto a sunroom, and a sequestered sitting room. It’s seven kilometres from Slane and the nearest pub and shop is at Sallygarden Crossroads, less than a kilometre away.
Balgree, Carnaross, Kells €220K DNG O’DWYER, (049) 854 7622
It may have begun as a traditional 19th-century singlestorey cottage, but this detached house has since gained an unorthodox two-storey extension giving it an eccentric look. The first floor of the extension houses a sitting room with a front-facing balcony overlooking pastoral views to the south. The kitchen is on the ground floor, along with a sunroom, and there are three bedrooms, one with an ensuite and a walk-in wardrobe. The floor area is 1,399 sq ft inside, and the garden comes to 1.1 acres with a patio, shrubbery, two long lawns and a pond. The house is only 10 minutes’ drive from the M3 motorway.
Ballygortagh, Summerhill €420K SHERRY FITZGERALD ROYAL, (046) 943 1525
If you’d lived at Summerhill about 250-odd years ago, you’d have been able to count among your neighbours the juvenile Arthur Wesley, later to become the Duke of Wellington, whose family seat was at Dangan Castle, about three kilometres from the village. This detached bungalow did not arrive on the scene until 1977, some 200 years after the Iron Duke was playing conkers up the road. It’s since been extended twice, to 1,755 sq ft all on one floor, with an unconverted attic. This includes four bedrooms (one ensuite) and four reception rooms, and the grounds amount to half an acre with mature trees, a stone patio and pond.