Ballyneale House | Ballingarry, County Limerick, Ireland
Offered by Sherry FitzGerald
Stacumny House
Ballyneale House
BALLYNEALE HOUSE
A most attractive and
gloriously positioned classically
proportioned mansion, combining
total seclusion with a wellconnected location. Close to the
charming village of Ballingarry
and only 34 miles/55 km from
Shannon airport, with further
international airports at Dublin
and Cork
Set in 17 acres/6.9 hectares of pleasure
grounds, with up to a total of 104 acres
available
For Sale Freehold by Private Treaty
Viewing Strictly by Appointment
- SOLE SELLING AGENT -
Stacumny House
Killeen
Ballyneale House
IMMACULATE MANSION
Built in 1853, Ballyneale House combines total seclusion with a well-connected location, midway
between Newcastlewest and Charleville. Rolling lawns slope softly away from the house to an
ornamental lake with its own island, while elsewhere within the glorious grounds, elegant formal
gardens are waiting to be discovered. The mansion house itself is just as exceptional. A distinguished
five-bay front with an attractive stone façade and projecting two storey wings with elliptical arches is
perfectly balanced. A southerly aspect combined with a raised ground floor affords elevated views and
superb natural light.
A flight of stone steps lead up to the solid timber front door, itself set within an elaborate carved
door-case in the classical revival manner and benefitting from a Georgian fan light. The twin side
lights provide superb light to the reception hall. This hall extends the entire depth of the house and
incorporates a carved timber staircase, where a large Diocletian window on the return gives much
added light to the hall below. The principal reception rooms all interconnect with the reception hall
off its central axial position and benefit from a marvellously raised position to provide elevated views
and added natural light. The drawing room has a double aspect with French windows leading onto
a small balcony, a shelved alcove, and twin arches linking to an inner drawing room with an Adamstyle carved timber chimneypiece. A well portioned dining room enjoys south and east light and can
comfortably accommodate 14 diners.
Together the suite of reception rooms combine to provide a wonderful entertaining space with a
restrained grandeur displayed in carved ceiling plasterwork and fine tall windows and chimneypieces
yet individually each room is extremely comfortable and pleasant for everyday family living. Also
found on this upper ground floor is a kitchen, pantry and cloakroom/W.C. The lower ground floor
opens to the rear at ground level into the courtyard and includes a family room, the original kitchen,
laundry/boot room with a WC, wine cellar, staff bedroom and bathroom. There is also a large airing
cupboard with fitted linen shelving.
A generously proportioned staircase leads upstairs to a landing accessing the three bedroom suites and
a study overlooking the courtyard and stables and onward to the distant hills. The master bedroom
suite enjoys twin south and west aspects and has an en-suite dressing room and bathroom, with
an interconnecting door to a second bathroom allowing the option of his and hers bathrooms. The
remaining two suites are both generous and each benefits from twin aspects and fine elevated views.
Mansion Home 5,543 square feet / 515 square metres, Staff Cottage 2,153 square feet / 200 square
metres, separate Courtyard Guest Suites 2,260 square feet / 210 square metres, Folly Lodge 323
square feet / 30 square metres, Cinema/Snooker Room 646 square feet / 60 square metres
Stacumny House
Killeen
Ballyneale House
GLORIOUS GROUNDS
Elegant formal gardens surround the house and are very much a feature of this property.
Manicured lawns gently slope from the front of the house to an ornamental lake with its
own island and link to pleasure pathways that circle the grounds, crossing an oriental style
timber foot bridge at one point, to take-in the gravelled drive, flanked by mature trees and
under-planted with a profusion of spring bulbs. An orchard with fruiting trees, an
impressive productive kitchen garden, an attractive stone courtyard with stabling and coach
houses complete the loop at a secret garden with swimming pool and sun terrace, facing
south and west. Among the highlights of the walk is a rose garden with brick lined paths,
a carefully planted spring garden, hard tennis court with viewing pavilion, a formal Long
Pond, and a sunken garden. Wider walks can encompass the hazel nuttery and the exotic
Palais des Poulets
The stone courtyard to the rear of the house is extremely attractive and includes a range
of single and lofted stone buildings under a slate roof, climbing roses, hydrangeas and
clematis adorning the walls. The old coach house has been sympathetically
converted into a guest wing in recent years, to provide four independent guest suites.
The remaining outbuildings provide a manager’s house, an estate office, staff apartment,
staff canteen, boiler house and a dry store. A changing room links to the secret garden and
its swimming pool. Adjacent to this courtyard an attractive stone outbuilding houses a
high specification cinema with sophisticated Runco automated projector and Linn
surround sound systems and a billiard room with exquisitely French polished panelled
walls containing a full sized snooker table.
The productive kitchen garden extends to about three-quarters of an acre and is quite
resplendent during the growing season. An arbour avenue with ornamental
ironwork leads to a Douglas Fir timber framed glasshouse and a potting shed with a
delightful cedar shingle roof. The structured vegetable and herb beds are delineated by
pathways that radiate out from an attractive wooden gazebo, itself adorned with climbing
roses and clematis. A pretty stone outbuilding immediately beyond the nuttery and
adjacent to the walled garden provides further accommodation and includes a living/
bedroom with wood burning stove, kitchenette and shower room.
Stacumny House
Killeen
Ballyneale House
SPORTING PARADISE
The sporting facilities within the immediate pleasure grounds of the mansion house are quite
enough to excite any sporting enthusiast, with a tennis court, croquet lawn, swimming pool and
pleasure walks but there is more, both within the wider grounds and in the immediate local area.
An outer court yard comprises a stone range of 10 large stables under an attractive slate roof.
Hunting in the immediate area includes the renowned Limerick Foxhunt and the Stonehall
Harriers, with the Scarteen, Duhallow and Tipperary hunts all within easy boxing distance. There
is excellent racing nearby at Limerick, Mallow and Tipperary racecourses and an extensive pointto-point calendar locally.
Golf enthusiasts are well catered for with the The Irish Open having been hosted nearby on the
Trent Jones designed golf course at Adare, with many other noted and championship courses
within easy driving distance. Close to hand there is some excellent salmon fishing, pheasant
shooting and good rough shooting, hill walking in the scenic Ballyhoura mountains and sailing
on the Shannon Estuary. There are also fine sandy beaches along the Atlantic coast within
1 hours drive.
Nearby Ballingarry village provides good local amenities and is home to the noted Mustard Seed
Restaurant at the Echo Lodge Country House Hotel, with many other eateries and restaurants in
the area including the Adare Manor Hotel and the Dunraven Arms in Adare. New road
infrastructure in the region has led to a vast improvement in travel times with Limerick reachable
within 25 minutes and Shannon Airport within 40 minutes. Shannon provides an extensive
internal, UK, European and trans-Atlantic service, whilst Kerry airport, some 55 minutes away,
provides connections to Dublin and the UK. Dublin city and its international airport is some 148
miles / 238 km away and accessible from the M7 Limerick/Dublin motorway. There is a main line
rail station at nearby Charleville with direct connections to Dublin Heuston (110 minutes) and
Cork (35 minutes).
Adare 11 miles / 18 km, Limerick City 21 miles / 34 km, Shannon international airport 36 miles /
58 km, Cork City 53 miles / 85 km, Dublin City 148 miles / 238 km, Charleville
(train) 12 miles / 20 km, Ballingarry 4 miles / 6 km
Stacumny House
Killeen
Ballyneale House
Mansion: 5,543 sq ft / 515 m2
Staff Cottage: 2,153 sq ft / 200 m2
Guest Suites: 2,260 sq ft / 210 m2
Cinema: 646 sq ft / 60 m2
Folly Lodge: 323 sq ft / 30 m2
Not to scale. For illustration purposes only.
Only mansion house floor plans illustrated.
ENTRANCE FLOOR
All others available from the selling agents.
FIRST FLOOR
GARDEN FLOOR
Mapping, Wayleaves, Easements and Rights of Way
The property is offered for sale subject to and with the benefit of all matters and rights of
way contained in or referred to in the Deeds. Full mapping clearly illustrating boundary
fence lines and any rights of way can be made available to viewing parties.
Tenure and Possession
The property is offered for sale freehold with vacant possession being given at the closing of
the sale. The present staff may be persuaded to remain with the appropriate terms
and conditions available to bidding parties.
Services
There is mains electricity connected to the estate, complimented by a back-up generator.
Water is from a private well (300 ft.), multiple telephone lines with internal connectivity,
CCTV security system, Ventrolla draft exclusion system to main house
windows. Heating is oil fired with independent systems to the guest suites. Foul drainage to
a private system.
Fixtures and Fittings
The fitted carpets and curtains, 2 antique mirrors, fixed China cabinet and any fixed garden
statues or ornaments are included in sale. All machinery together with the chattels within
the house, light fittings are excluded from the freehold sale but may be available by separate
negotiation.
Viewing
Viewing strictly by prior appointment only
BER: Exempt
Solicitor with Conveyance of Sale
Eugene F. Collins, Ref. Mrs. Lisa White,
Temple Chambers, 3 Burlington Road, Dublin 4
T. +353 1 202 6415, E. [email protected]
Additional Land Purchase
There is an option to purchase additional lands, up to a total of 104 acres being in the same
ownership and including a private golf course and top quality grazing lands. The 2,740 yard
Par 35 golf course is located east of the house and comprises 9 holes, the longest of which is
some 475 yards and the shortest some 166 yards. The course is linked to the estate from an
internal estate road but has direct access to the public road. Maintained in superb condition
the course is played from nine tees to three greens. The grazing lands are highly fertile and
benefit from good estate access roads, secure fencing and shelter belt hedging.
Price Upon Request
DIRECTIONS
From the N20 Limerick / Cork road take the R518 Ballingarry / Newcastle West turn off,
opposite the “Xpress Stop” petrol station and the Kilmallock road. Then continue for 6.5
miles / 10.5 km and the entrance is on the right hand side, set within a stone entrance splay
marked by a brass nameplate. Further down the road is a tree lined secondary entrance.
Conditions to be noted:
1 These particulars do not constitute an offer or contract or any part thereof and none of the statements contained in the particulars as to the property is to be relied on as a statement or representation of fact. 2. The vendor does not make or give, the Agent(s) or its staff authority to make or give
any representation or warranty in respect of this property. 3 All descriptions, dimensions, references to condition and necessary permission for use and occupation, and other details are given in good faith and are believed to be correct but any intending purchaser or tenant should not rely on them
as statements or representations of fact but must satisfy himself/herself by inspection or otherwise as to the correctness of each of them. 4 In the event of any inconsistency between these particulars and the contract of sale, the latter shall prevail. 5 The terms, Vendor and Purchaser, where the
context requires shall be deemed to refer to Lessor and Lessee and Landlord and Tenant respectively. Sherry FitzGerald PSRA Registration No: 001628
- SOLE SELLING AGENT DAVID ASHMORE
Sherry FitzGerald
164 Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland
+353 (0)1 237 6300 | [email protected]
www.sherryfitz.ie
DES O’MALLEY
Sherry FitzGerald O’Malley
6 Shannon Street, Limerick, Ireland
+353 (0)61 418 000 | [email protected]
www.sherryfitz.ie