2 Bedroom Villa

Starting life at the turn of the millennium, this stunning house was built by an Irish woman who had returned to the area after thirty years living in Australia. Two decades later, the new owner, who had spent thirty years living in Greece, felt the same siren call of the proprietor before her, and returned to her ancestral roots in search of a holiday home. Driving through the Killarney national park with its otherworldly scenery and arriving in the cosmopolitan district of Kenmare with its open-hearted community, the new owner fell in love with this special holistic bucolic area and when the plot came on the market once more, the unique stone cottage overlooking Kenmare Bay and the Caha Mountains had to be hers. The luck of the Irish!

Inside
In the latest reincarnation of this stone-clad coastal home, modern luxuries have been added as well as eco-friendly features such as the spring water feed. Fluid living spaces are decorated in heritage colours to echo the landscape; an earthy palette of burnt sienna, milky white and bluey-greens. A mango wood sideboard covered in a tasselled abstract tapestry was chosen to match the shaggy cows in the adjoining fields, while huge picture windows usher nature indoors and lead to a stilted veranda. The guest bedroom has an en suite shower room while the master suite features a cast iron clawfoot bath - both sharing views across the bay.

Outside
The tender work of the original owner still shows today within the acre of gardens and fruit orchards. An emerald lawn bordered by established trees makes a sheltered spot for sunbathing, while the veranda with Canadian Spa hot tub was designed for admiring the moon rise over the sea on languid summer days. A little red bridge crosses over a stream that runs along one side of the house, gently tumbling over rocks to create a natural water feature. There's also a petanque pitch, for a couples game of boules. Beyond the paradisaical realms of the garden, the renowned Ring of Kerry takes explorers on a 180km circuit past pristine beaches, glassy loughs and an ombre rainbow of craggy mountains.