A gate lodge, a farmhouse, a starter home or a smart three-bed semi: 4 properties, but which one would you choose?

Plenty of charm in the royal county

Address: Gate Lodge, Bettystown, Co Meath, A92 K371

Agent: Dixon Residential

Asking price: €425,000

Single-storey, this D1 Ber-rated three-bedroom, one-bathroom gate lodge is charmingly pretty.

Extending to 86 square metres, it opens into a vaulted ceilinged hall with the first of its three bedrooms to the right and a smaller third bedroom to the left, where the bathroom is also located.

To the rear is a dual aspect living cum dining room whose opposite walls have decorative panelling or brick slip. It’s a good size, has a pitched ceiling and an arched feature window containing a reading nook.

It leads through to the kitchen and on into the primary bedroom, which opens out to that large private garden.

The beach at Bettystown is a distance of two kilometres.

Fine family home in Galway city’s commuter belt

Address: 48 Bun na Coille, Moycullen, Co. Galway H91 E5WP

Agent: Sherry FitzGerald Galway

Asking price: €420,000

Set in a small estate that was built in 2008 and overlooking a green, this is a good-sized B2 Ber-rated three-bedroom, two-bathroom semi that is within walking distance of the village of Moycullen, a satellite town of Galway city.

The 101sq m semi has an interconnecting living room and kitchen, off which there is a bright and sizeable utility and guest w.c.

The principal bedroom is ensuite. Set to the front, it opens out to a balcony.

The house has a gated pedestrian side entrance, good for bringing bikes and bins out to the rear, where there is a split-level, low-maintenance back garden.

There is off-street parking for up to two cars.  

Upgraded starter home with private back garden

Address: 106 Downpatrick Road, Crumlin, Dublin 12, D12 XF2W

Agent: Mullery O’Gara

Asking price: €425,000

Light-filled, this three-bedroom, two-bathroom B2 Ber-rated terraced house has a dual-aspect, open-plan living space with the sitting room to the front and the kitchen to the back and a small bedroom or home office to the rear that opens directly out to the high-hedged and private garden, ideal for taking meeting calls al fresco.

There’s an adjacent guest w.c that also has garden views. Extending to 67 square metres, there are two bedrooms and the family bathroom upstairs, the principal is to the front.

Both front and back gardens are well-planted and private, and while parking is currently on the street, there is scope, subject to planning, to replace the pedestrian gate and steel fencing with vehicular access.

Farmhouse with fresh décor just 15 minutes from Cork city

Address: Lower Farran, Ovens, Farran, Co Cork, P31 CR44

Agent: OM2

Asking price: €400,000

Situated about a 15 to 20 minutes’ drive west of Cork city, on the airport side is a fine size detached four-bedroom, one-bathroom E1 Ber-rated farmhouse that is within walking distance of a national school and creche as well as Farran Wood, a 45-acre forest on the southern shore of Inniscarra Lake, where the National Rowing Centre is, where our Olympic medallists trained.

The two-storey residence is smartly decorated, extends to 115 square metres and has a separate kitchen and living room, one bedroom downstairs, as well as pitched ceilings in the three bedrooms upstairs.

These all have deep-set, low-level windows. It comes to market with a large garage attached to the house.