Asking €99k, you can live in a two-bedroom townhouse on the lane that Cillian Murphy’s film family called home in the 2024 Irish movie, Small Things Like These.
A two-bedroom terraced house on Chapel Lane in Co Wexford’s heritage town, New Ross, has come to market seeking €99,000.
Unlike many of the other 500 or so listings at this price level on Daft.ie, it is neither a site nor a derelict house.
Address: 10 Chapel Lane, New Ross, Co. Wexford, Y34 WA26
Asking price: €99,000
Agent: Sherry FitzGerald Radford
While it has a low E1 BER rating, this is a perfectly habitable little house of 56 square metres.
It also comes with bragging rights. It is set on the lane where the protagonist Bill Furlong, played by Oscar-winning actor Cillian Murphy, lived with his wife and daughters in the 2024 Irish film, Small Things Like These.
Adapted by Enda Walsh from Claire Keegan’s 2021 novel of the same name, it was filmed in and around New Ross, the birthplace of Eileen Gray, Ireland’s greatest design export.
In the film, Chapel Lane was made to look dreary, a place where rain seemed to fall every day.
In real life, it’s a charming street that climbs from Mary Street to High Hill Street.
The vista is as steep as it appears on film, which was a dream, its production designer Paki Smith says, as he wanted the audience to literally “feel those ups and downs”.
Set on a hill, New Ross’s terraced homes run down to the River Barrow, a waterway that helped the town’s merchant class thrive in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Home of the Year judge, the late Hugh Wallace, loved the place. One of the last homes he visited belonged to Aileen O’Neill and Arron Deegan and overlooked the river.
Number 10 Chapel Lane is a smaller property but is equally charming.
It opens into a small hall where the ground floor features tongue-and-groove panelled ceilings.
The living space is open plan with a lounge at the front and a kitchen with Shaker-style units at the back.
To the rear of the house is a small utility space you walk through to its only bathroom, a shower room.
The east-facing back garden is accessed via a set of steps and ascends to first floor level where it is bounded at the back by mature trees.
Upstairs, there are two double bedrooms. The principal is at the front and spans the width of the house.
In an era of clutter-free spaces and icing-sugar straight walls bathed in tasteful neutrals, number 21 offers an imaginative house-hunter the chance to buy a property with a history for a reasonable sum of money.
