With sky views all the way south to Three Rock Mountain, this dual aspect Dublin penthouse foreshadows any weather system. You can see the rain before it starts falling.
Bought as a new build in 2005 by its owners, the three-bedroom, three-bathroom duplex in Aiken’s Village continues to enjoy big sky vistas, despite the surrounding urbanisation.
The Luas had only opened the year before and only ran as far as Sandyford.
The property is closer to the Glencairn stop.
Address: 149 Grianan Fidh, Aiken's Village, Sandyford, Dublin 18, D18X384
Asking price: €525,000
Agent: Mark Kelly Associates
Extending to 138 square metres with a B1 Ber-rating, it’s a home that has been gently upgraded many times since then.
It is just one of five units in this block.
To take full advantage of the views, the bedrooms are located on the lower floor, at the entrance level.
All three open out to balconies.
There is under-stairs storage, and there are built-in wardrobes in all of the rooms.
Two of the three bedrooms are en-suites with the family bathroom adjacent to the third bedroom. The owners upgraded the bathrooms in 2017.
You have to climb a flight of stairs to access the open-plan living room on the floor above.
Upstairs is open plan but zoned.
Set under sloping beams, a central support pillar creates a natural divide between the kitchen, dining, and lounge areas.
The owners installed a new kitchen by Kube Interiors and replaced the glazing in the large windows to improve insulation levels.
The views are impressive.
“You can see Three Rock and the weather coming in,” says the owner of the vista from the lounge.
“You can see clouds, sky, and birds.”
It comes with a designated parking space and fibre broadband.
Sandyford, too, has matured, and the business district now also has a residential feel, thanks in part to the sterling work on landscaping the apartment blocks.
The location is excellent. You can be on the M50 in minutes, and the Luas green line stop at Glencairn is less than a 10-minute walk.
The bus stop for the number 47 bus, which journeys to Poolbeg Street in Dublin 2, is around the corner.
The property is within a short walk of two national schools, Stepaside Educate Together and Gaelscoil Thaobh na Coille.
