luxury real estate for sale County Kildare, Ireland

Laurel Lodge is a beautiful property situated just south of Calverstown in the townland of Kilcullen, County Kildare. Built in 2006, the property has had a single owner since its construction and has benefited from a continuous series of upgrades and ongoing maintenance. The accommodation spans a comfortable 284 (3,056 square feet) and includes three reception rooms, one of which is a spacious open-plan kitchen and dining area. Laurel Lodge also features four ensuite bedrooms and is set on extensive grounds covering approximately 13.4 acres (5.44 hectares), which include a well-maintained garden and a large detached garage. Located just a 45-minute drive from Dublin Airport, Laurel Lodge has convenient access to local amenities and facilities, making it an ideal retreat for those who value both comfort and convenience. Laurel Lodge is positioned away from the main road allowing for privacy and security. Adjacent to the property is the entrance to Blackhall Castle which provides access for scenic walking trails with bucolic views. You are first welcomed by a grand entrance with electric gates, providing access to a newly laid pebble driveway that winds through the scenic landscape, guiding you to a secluded, modern country home. As you enter the front glass door you are welcomed by an entrance hall allowing further access to the 3 reception rooms and ground floor bedrooms. The rear of the property benefits from a south/east direction allowing an abundance of natural light through the double-glazed windows throughout. The heart of the property lays in the kitchen/dining area perfect for hosting gatherings or barbeques with a central island with black marble countertops, custom fitted shelving, gas/electric hob/cooker and easy access between inside and outside living with exceptional views of the Kildare/Wicklow countryside. The other reception rooms include a sitting room with a gas fireplace and a living room with an open fire. Laurel Lodge features an upgraded central heating system powered by energy-efficient geothermal technology, with a gas backup for added reliability. This eco-friendly system ensures the home stays comfortably warm year-round while reducing energy consumption and environmental impact. All the bedrooms are located along the main hallway of the property, each offering a serene and private haven of comfort and relaxation. All feature ensuite bathrooms for added convenience and luxury, while the master suite stands out for its ample size, elegant bow-fronted window, generously sized walk-in wardrobe, and scenic views of the surrounding landscape, making it the ultimate retreat within the home. Outside, Laurel Lodge is graced with the natural beauty of silver birch and fruit trees, creating a picturesque backdrop for daily life. A detached garage offers ample storage, as well as space for a car and household items. The garage is fully plumbed and includes a small kitchen unit, as well as a shower room. With its concrete flooring, block construction, and added insulation, it offers excellent potential for conversion into a studio apartment, requiring minimal work to transform it into a comfortable living space.The property spans 13.4 acres (5.44 hectares), with a small paddock at the front and highly fertile land to the rear, ideal for quality horse and livestock grazing or tillage crops. Access to the grazing land is provided via a gate located at the roadside. Laurel Lodge is just 45 minutes from Dublin Airport and 10 minutes from the M9/N7 motorways, located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from Calverstown and 10 miles (16.2 km) from both Kildare Village and Newbridge. The area features scenic walking and cycling routes and is close to top schools, including Newbridge College, Clongowes Wood College, and Leinster Senior College. Nearby leisure options include the K Club (33 km), Adare Manor (175 km), Curragh Racecourse (16 km), Punchestown (21 km), Goffs Sales (28 km), and the National Stud and Gardens (14 km).

Coolree Lodge is a remarkable property set at the top of a quiet cul de sac road in the picturesque townland of Robertstown, County Kildare. Recently completely renovated to upgrade the original house, built circa 2005, and add a remarkably and striking contemporary style extension. The light filled accommodation extends to a comfortable 2,777 square feet (258 square meters) and has 3 reception rooms, including a magnificent open plan kitchen and dining space, and 4-bedrooms suites. Generous grounds extend to some 9.4-acres or 3.8 hectares and include lawned gardens, barn, stables and grazing paddocks. Coolree Lodge is located just 50mins from Dublin airport. Coolree Lodge is the last property located on the cul de sac, providing a private and peaceful haven. Adjacent woodland has an abundance of wildlife and provides scenic walking trails, which go around Ballynafagh Lake. From the entrance gates welcome you down a pebbled driveway where you are greeted by a structurally impressive looking property. As you enter the front floor to ceiling glass door you are welcomed by a hallway allowing access to either the reception rooms, bedrooms and access to upstairs. The property faces a Southeast direction which is used to allow natural light to enter through the abundance of triple glazed windows. The heart of this property is the beautifully designed kitchen and dining area, part of an extensive extension completed just two years ago. This well thought of planned addition includes a utility room, custom lighting, a walk-in pantry, a WC, and a spacious bedroom with an ensuite. The kitchen/dining room features a 5-meter pitched roof, expansive triple-glazed windows, and custom-fitted shelving that blends style and functionality. The kitchen is a true delight, centered around a bespoke 4m island with a built-in cooking hob, cooker tap, complemented by high-end appliances, including a wine cooler, and finished with reclaimed oak flooring that adds warmth and character. Underfloor heating throughout the extension ensures year-round comfort. The sitting room impresses with its 6.6-meter ceiling and wood-burning stove, creating a relaxing retreat. From here, you can step out onto the rear patio, ideal for entertaining and alfresco dining, seamlessly connecting indoor and outdoor living. In addition to the bedroom in the extension, there are two more ensuite bedrooms on the ground floor, offering ample accessibility and accommodation for family and guests. Ascending the stairs, you are greeted by a spacious office, ideal for remote working as a home study or to use as a nursery. This versatile space overlooks the rear sitting room and garden, with an abundance of windows that flood the area with natural light, creating a bright atmosphere. Upstairs also features a well-appointed bathroom and a generously sized, south-facing bedroom with hardwood flooring. The bedroom has two picture windows, offering lovely views, and includes a walk-in wardrobe, providing ample storage. Outside, Coolree Lodge is surrounded by lush natural fauna and a variety of mature Irish trees, including Silver birch, Scottish spruce and Beech. The property includes a barn featuring a self-contained unit with concrete flooring, electricity, plumbed, plastered, block walls, and a double-glazed window, offering both practicality and comfort. For equestrian enthusiasts, there are two stables, with the potential to add a third, as well as a tack room and a wash bay. All stables are plumbed with automatic feeder.—ideal for all types of horse care and activities. The two expansive fields, spanning a generous 8.45 acres (3.42 hectares), are perfect for grazing or hay bailing. Coolree Lodge is conveniently located just an hour from Dublin City Centre, with Naas town only 20 km (12 miles) away. The area also benefits from proximity to prestigious schools, including Clongowes Wood College and Newbridge College.

An attractive and exquisite residence sympathetically set within the fabric of an historic corn mill and magically situated within private grounds, which extend to the banks of the river Liffey and include the original cascading mill race canal. In all about 3 acres or 1.2 hectares and some 6,900 square feet or 641 square metres of accommodation. Historically and architecturally significant Yeomanstown Corn Mill has a rare magical quality and retaining much of the original industrial mill equipment makes a truly unique and enchanting residence. Milling activity on the grounds of Yeomanstown Corn Mill is thought to date back to the 14th-century. The current mill is largely late Georgian, circa 1810, in composition but likely incorporates earlier structures. A mill illustrated on maps back to 1654 in the mid-17th-century. With the resplendent red brick exterior stretching up to four and five floors and abutting the cascading mill wheel canal Yeomanstown Corn Mill is enchanting and extremely picturesque. The restoration and conversion of the building into a home magically marries the rare original industrial charm with contemporary living requirements, to create an utterly enticing and fun home. The unashamedly industrial themed interior incorporates well thought out living spaces punctuated with original millstones, corn elevator shafts, massive ceiling beams, rustic timber staircases and ladders, white washed walls and varying ceiling heights to alluring effect. A flagged stone reception hall retains the original corn milling wheels behind a glass wall and features the rustic mill staircase to the upper floors and leads to a study, an office, a spacious bathroom with a large bath, a shower and a sauna and two bedrooms, one with a hobbit like door to an enclosed walled garden. The first floor has a large open plan kitchen with a fully fitted kitchen, large breakfast counter worktop, industrial themed lighting and incorporating original mill fittings and equipment to great effect. It leads to a fine living room with a large cast iron stove and used as a dining and television space, off the kitchen there is a large pantry. The second floor has an incredible double height studio space with an evocative mix of tall white washed walls and exposed timber beams and boards and, again, incorporating original mill components. A large cast iron stove ample warms the space and there are two stairs to an upper mezzanine library floor. Itself opening onto the third-floor landing, which leads to the marvellously generous master bedroom suite with a large bedroom and interconnecting shower room and dressing room. There are two further bedrooms (on the second floor) one with a shower room ensuite and the other served by a second shower room on the landing hall. The final fifth or attic floor was previously utilised as an art studio space and is currently used as a gym and store. Bounding the river Liffey and including a fine riverbank stretch, one part opening into a natural river swimming hole or pool, the gardens are well-timbered and private. A striking cut-stone aqueduct bridge, Victoria Bridge, dates to 1837 and forms a great folly backdrop to the gardens. An original wrought iron bridge beside the impressive and large timber mill wheel leads to the gardens, abundant with wildlife and having an island like feel, being bounded by the canal and river. Although usefully also be accessed by vehicular gate. The mill wheel is thought capable of generating 3kw of electricity per hour, or more, in a recent appraisal.

A captivating historic country home, dating to 1880, with endless charm and privately nestled within a 7-acre [2.8 hectares] pocket estate. Accommodation extends to 3,929 sq. feet [365 sq. metres] in total with 5-Bedrooms in the house augmented by 2-Bedrooms within the adjacent guest Mews. Dublin city centre 26 miles [42 km], or 55-minutes driving. Positioned just a 5-minute drive [2 miles or 3.3 km] of Prosperous wrought iron electric gates lead up a gravelled drive to a parking forecourt in front of the house, or a spur drive leads to a Studio and the guest Mews behind the house. Attractive estate style iron fencing and parkland grazing, interspersed with mature and more recently planted specimen trees, combines seamlessly with the rich architectural character and historic features of the house to create a magical and protected pocket-estate feel. A wonderful south-facing veranda links the principal reception rooms to a large patio terrace, itself linking to the kitchen, and onward to the glorious gardens. Behind a ‘lobster’ blue front door a generous reception hall leads to the principal reception rooms, the kitchen and a cloakroom with WC. A carved oak timber staircase leads to the first floor and a mezzanine floor off the stair return. A fine drawing room has a feature bow-front or bay-window, decorative ceiling cornice, a marble chimneypiece with an open fire and twin French doors to the veranda. A comfortable family room also features decorative ceiling cornice and an open fire and twin French doors to the veranda. An old steel safe makes a remarkable feature cupboard. The kitchen is in the Irish country style, with the requisite Aga cooking stove ensuring winter warmth. Twin French doors lead out to a south-facing garden terrace and link easily to the veranda, principal reception rooms and wider gardens for entertaining. The kitchen links to a shelved panty and a laundry room. A small boot room hall off the kitchen provides access to an enclosed courtyard and could, possibly, allow internal access to the guest Mews. A ground floor bedroom and a cloakroom with separate shower room and WC completes the ground floor accommodation. A second WC is located off the stair return landing. A master bedroom suite is generous and includes a marvellous study, bedroom, and a bathroom. Accessed from the study, positioned just off the stair return landing on the mezzanine floor, which features carved oak fitted bookcases, polished oak timber flooring, a timber panelled coved ceiling and a cast iron fireplace with a wood stove and interconnects to the bedroom and bathroom. The dual aspect bedroom faces south and west and includes an open fireplace and delightful window seat. The bathroom has a cast iron roll-top bath. Three further bedrooms, giving five in total, are positioned off the first-floor landing and all enjoy a dual aspect and have open fireplaces. The guest Mews can be accessed from enclosed courtyard, linking to both the house and mews, or independently from the driveway spur. Benefiting from upgrading and restoration works in 2008 and includes a double-height stair hall and an interconnecting kitchen/dining room and living room. Upstairs there is a shower room and two bedrooms, one with French doors opening onto a large timber balcony terrace. A studio barn has a pot-belly wood stove and a mezzanine loft. Gardens include an orchard, kitchen garden, enclosed courtyard, and a fun Norwegian style sauna. The lands provide good grazing in two divisions, link to the adjacent Grand Canal walking path and include a 2-storey ruin. Steeped in history and cherished by the same family for over half-a-century the original Victorian character has been enhanced and embellished with well thought out recent upgrades and improvements. Original features like the window shutters, solid steel safe and open fires. For further information contact James O’Flaherty or David Ashmore