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The stunning €9.7million Irish home with incredible sea views, glass elevator, indoor pool and its own PRIVATE island

May 28, 2023

AN incredible home has just hit the Irish market - and it comes with an indoor pool and its own private island among the huge perks.

The luxury property, located in Dunmore Head, Kilbaha, Kilrush, Co. Clare, is on sale for €9.75m.

It has four bedrooms and four bathrooms, as well as an indoor pool.

The property sits atop 60 acres, overlooking Dunmore Bay and includes a private island.

The property boasts panoramic sea views extending to Loop Head Lighthouse and across the bay to Kerry Head and the Slieve Mish Mountains.

There are three reception rooms.

The location is described as "pleasantly remote" in the listing, with privacy of paramount importance.

A land bridge links the island to the mainland and there is a small beach located in the private bay.

There is also a marked helicopter pad outside, allowing for sea, road and air access.

The property is accessed by a gravelled laneway off the public road.

Kilbaha Bay Harbour is located just five minutes away by car, where you will find deep water mooring, two pubs and a restaurant.

Inside the home, ceilings are completed with gold gilding in the cornices, with a well-executed cantilever stone staircase with brass-coated balustrades.

There are also original and exquisite Bossi chimney pieces within the property.

Nearby towns of Kilkee and Kilrush are around a half an hour drive, while Carrigahold and Ballybunion can be readily accessed by a boat across the bay.

Kilbaha Bay and Harbour can be reached in five minutes, while Carrigaholt is 17 minutes away.

Farranfore Airport is nearby for air access, and Shannon International Airport is easily accessible.

Upon entering the property, guests will see large electric security gates leading along a tarmacadam asphalt drive, through an inner electric barrier gate into a secure parking courtyard with garaging.

There is room for four cars in the garage and it links into the axial hall linking to the stair hall, elevator lift and kitchen.

The garage has two electric roller doors and is interconnected to a fuel store with rear access.

A pillared portico leads to the front door and entrance foyer, opening into an oval-shaped reception hall.

Off the reception hall, you can find the stair hall, a cloakroom with WC and a reception room designed in the Great Room tradition.

The reception room occupies the entire south-facing coastal front and has living, dining and kitchen spaces - with east and west patio spaces to each end.

The stair hall extends over three floors and features a gorgeous cantilever stone staircase and a glass elevator lift.

There is a study on the upper floor which has access to a large roof terrace, linking the rooftop to the reception room.

There is a pool room on the lower level, opening out onto a large patio terrace, which also features a 'Champagne Room' and changing rooms.

The master bedroom suite is located on the ground floor, boasting magnificent sea views, a walk-in wardrobe and an ensuite shower room.

There are two more bedroom suites on the lower floor which open onto patio terraces.

These are augmented by a private guest bedroom suite within the enclosed courtyard, which has a bedroom, shower room and kitchenette.

The guest quarters boast framed sea views through a picture window within the courtyard's brick wall.

The courtyard is accessed directly from the house, parking courtyard or the south patio terrace.

It features a curve-fronted garden room, a lily pond and rose beds.

Moving inside the house, an adjacent room to the kitchen serves as a back kitchen and laundry room.

The entrance hall to the property boasts polished stone flooring with ornate decorative ceiling cornicing with gold gilding.

There is a large picture window to the walled garden and a cloak cupboard.

The room is complete with large floor-to-ceiling double timber doors leading into the reception vestibule.

The reception vestibule has an ornate Rossi marble chimney piece with a Stovax insert.

It is octagonal in shape and has polished stone flooring with interconnecting doors to the living room and walled garden.

The cloakroom has recessed spotlighting with a picture window to the walled garden.

There is polished stone flooring, a WHB, WC cloak hooks and separate store heating, camera and electrical controls.

The great room is comprised of a large barrel-vaulted room with centred double-sided Bossi chimney pieces.

The living room has a Bossi chimney piece with a glass screen, polished timber flooring, a barrel-vaulted ceiling with ornate plasterwork and floor-to-ceiling windows on south and west elevations, with a picture window opening into a walled garden.

Treble Concertina French doors open into the garden and patio terrace.

The dining room also has a Bossi chimney piece with a glass door, a barrel-vaulted ceiling with ornate plasterwork and a polished timber door interconnecting to the family room and kitchen.

The kitchen also has barrel-vaulted ceilings with a range of fitted timber wall and floor cupboards, with a central island with an integrated stainless steel sink.

There is a sub-zero American-style fridge-freezer, Miele Microwave, Miele electric oven, Miele induction hob with four rings and a Miele dishwasher.

The kitchen has polished granite worktops, polished stone flooring and is glazed to south and east elevation with three concertina sliding French doors opening to the garden patio terrace.

The laundry and utility room has a range of fitted cupboards, a Miele washing machine, a Miele clothes dryer, a sub-zero American-style fridge-freezer and polished stone flooring.

The stair hall is curved with a grand cantilevered stone staircase with a brass curved balustrade and mahogany banisters.

The staircase is contained within a three-storey elliptical curve void, leading to the first floor and lower ground floor.

It interconnects with the garage, elevator and master bedroom suite.

The elevator is fully glazed with access to all three-floor levels and also has wheelchair access.

Within the elevator, there is a separate cupboard and a picture window to outside the property.

The master bedroom suite has a Bossi chimney piece with a Stovax glass insert, ceiling cornice and polished timber flooring.

There is floor-to-ceiling glazing to south and elevations with three concertina French doors leading to the garden patio terrace.

There is an interconnecting door to the dressing room.

The dressing room has polished timber flooring and a large walk-in wardrobe with hanging rails, drawers, a bench seat and a library-style ladder.

The shower room has a large picture window, a walk-in shower with an oversized shower head, a glass hand wash basin, a WC, and polished tiled flooring with recessed spotlighting.

On the first floor, there is a library and a study, with polished timber flooring, two Bossi marble chimney pieces in a double-sided fireplace with a barrel-vaulted ceiling.

There is a large picture window overlooking the walled garden.

There is access to the elevator lift from the study, along with a door to the outside roof terrace.

There is also a kitchenette with a microwave oven.

There is another shower room in the property with a shower, glass WHB, WC and polished stone flooring.

Also in the home is a smoking room, positioned on the rooftop terrace.

It has a vaulted ceiling, a Bossi marble chimney piece and polished stone flooring.

There is also a kitchenette with a Miele microwave and a stainless steel sink.

Double French doors open to the roof terrace.

On the lower ground floor, there is a stair hall lobby, fitted with a kitchenette, built-in cupboards with a Samsung American-style fridge-freezer, a Miele microwave oven and a stainless steel sink.

The champagne room has ornate illustrated stained glass, depicting Saint Patrick, with polished timber flooring, a large walk-in chilled champagne bar with a glazed front and is backlit.

The pool room has floor-to-ceiling glazing in a south elevation, with three French doors leading to the outside terrace.

The pool measures 12m x 4m.

There are also two plant rooms - the first has three Cordivari boilers (1 cooling, 1 pool, 1 heating) and a Joule hot water cylinder.

The second one has a Heat Star pool heater with pool filtration equipment.

The second bedroom has floor-to-ceiling glazing in a south elevation, with a French door to the garden terrace - and interconnecting with the shower room.

The en-suite shower room has a cubicle shower, a WC, polished timber flooring, a glass sink, a towel rail and a vanity mirror.

The third bedroom has floor-to-ceiling glazing with a south elevation, and a French door leading to the garden terrace - also interconnecting with a shower room.

This en-suite shower room also has a cubicle shower, a WC, polished timber flooring, a glass sink, a towel rail and a vanity mirror.