Our home is a bright, airy and easy to manage farm house, built in 2000 and modernised in 2022. It covers 250 sq m (2750 sq ft) and sleeps 8 in 4 large bedrooms. It sits in a 5,000 m. of gardens. It is at the heart of a small horse farm. It is in a quiet safe rural setting close to a town. The home is very easy to manage. It is a superb place to relax. You'll enjoy the most spectacular sunsets on patio of hot summer evenings. Just relax no care required. The lawns are cut weekly by our gardener.

The house is in the centre of a small farm surrounded by our own paddocks. There are roads and walkways between all the fields where horses and cattle graze. We keep a few riding horses and ponies for ourselves and our grandchildren. All animals are minded by our neighbours or my son who lives close by. Three of my adult children live within 500m.

All the wildlife on our farm is protected. Our garden is full of songbirds and we have developed a small 2 ha linear mixed amenity woodland along our boundary which ends in a larger more diverse wetland area. This and the adjoining Grand Canal plays host to a lot of wildlife. There are hares, foxes and rabbits to be seen from the house and many resident birds; most notably clutches of beautiful pheasants in the summer, overhead you'll hear and see our magnificent buzzards and if lucky you might locate an elusive woodpecker which resides just 100 m from our back door. The Grand Canal Greenway which runs along the farm's northern boundary is a magical amenity with a track for walkers and bicycles. It is one of the area's great wildlife corridors. Here you'll find herons, swans, water hens and the lucky and very sharp eyed may even catch a glimpse of the brilliantly coloured Kingfisher. On the other hand, there are many beautiful wild orchids to be found at your leisure. At one corner of our farm there is a feeder stream for the canal and a magnificent waterfall that is in the process of being restored to its former glory.

Our home sits just 2 km outside the small but well appointed town of Rathangan (2,500 persons). The town has all the amenities you need: ATM, small supermarkets, pubs, playground, river, churches, petrol station, post office a range of fast food - takeaways. etc. One pub serves good food on the Sundays and a few have bands playing most weekends. It is a superbly convenient base for touring the whole country. The M 7 motorway & Kildare town are less than 10 minutes away. Kildare is a transport hub, Mainline and suburban trains (45min to centre of Dublin city), Buses direct to Dublin and Dublin Airport (1 hour).

We have enjoyed 6 very successful exchanges and all our visitors have thoroughly enjoyed themselves here.
1. La Baule, FR: Family of 5. 5 th. Floor Holiday Apartment on Beach, Centre of fabulous French seaside resort

2. Norfolk Virginia, USA: Family of 3, Large Urban Residence with a private dock and boat on river US720780
3. Marin County, San Francisco, USA: Family of 4: Executive Residence in gated Community US1147
4. Central Verona, Italy, Young Couple and baby + grandparents: two bed apartment in an Ancient Palazzo in the old city, 100m from Arena, main city Square and Opera.
5. Brugges, Belgium: Family of 5. Suburban House 300m from beach in Blankenberg.

6. Vienna, Austria: City Centre apartment for 4 days before skiing in a nearby mountain resort

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We have two Cars: A 2015 Hyundai Santa fe (2.2L manual 7 seater) and a 2015 Land Cruiser (3TD 5 seats) both in PMO.