Foxrock feel, Cavan price: four-bed on half-acre for €365K

Spacious Colligan Lodge is close to Cavan golf club and the Farnham Estate

Colligan Lodge, Carrickane, Cavan, Co Cavan
Colligan Lodge, Carrickane, Cavan, Co Cavan
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Address: Colligan Lodge, Carrickane, Cavan, Co Cavan
Price: €365,000
Agent: Sherry FitzGerald Declan Woods

A large modern house on the edge of Cavan town has a period look and wouldn’t seem out of place in a south Dublin suburb. But the four-bed built 17 years ago by Nicola and Grahame Morphey is for sale for €365,000, a fraction of the price it could command, say, in Foxrock, although bigger than the average asking price in County Cavan.

Colligan Lodge, Carrickane, Cavan, Co Cavan, a 212sq m (2,282sq ft) detached four-bed on around half an acre, is for sale through Sherry FitzGerald Declan Woods. The house is named after a house once owned by Nicola's grandfather in Dungarvan, Co Waterford – and Dungarvan is where she and her husband Graham will be moving to, now that their children have left home.

The double-fronted exterior of Colligan Lodge has an Edwardian style. The sittingroom on the left of the front hall, like the drawingroom on the right, has a bay window looking over the front garden.

Colligan Lodge, Carrickane, Cavan, Co Cavan
Colligan Lodge, Carrickane, Cavan, Co Cavan

The drawingroom, oak-floored like the sittingroom, opens through French doors into the diningroom at the back of the house, which in turn opens through more French doors into the kitchen.

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Colligan Lodge, Carrickane, Cavan, Co Cavan
Colligan Lodge, Carrickane, Cavan, Co Cavan

This has a ceramic-tiled floor, mint-green kitchen units and a Stanley range; there is a utility room off it. There is also a study, a fully-fitted office, on the ground floor, accessed from the sittingroom.

Upstairs, there are four bedrooms and a family bathroom off the landing. The main bedroom, like the drawingroom below, has a bay window. It also has an en suite bathroom and a walk-in wardrobe. Floors upstairs are tongue-and-grooved white deal.

The owners modernised the plumbing five years ago: the house has mains water and a septic tank.

Outside, tall hedges surround large gardens: these include lawns, herb, fruit and vegetable gardens and a sunken garden with a water feature.

Colligan Lodge is about one-and-a-half kilometres from Cavan town, next to County Cavan Golf Club, according to agent Declan Woods and not far from the golf/spa Farnham Estate.

Colligan Lodge, Carrickane, Cavan, Co Cavan
Colligan Lodge, Carrickane, Cavan, Co Cavan
Colligan Lodge, Carrickane, Cavan, Co Cavan
Colligan Lodge, Carrickane, Cavan, Co Cavan
Frances O'Rourke

Frances O'Rourke

Frances O'Rourke, a contributor to The Irish Times, writes about homes and property