A most impressive home on 7 acres with extensive sea frontage. Built in 1873, The Old Coastguard Station is a world class waterfront period property with dynamic and truly breathtaking views across Sligo bay. It comes with original boathouse and slipway to a small sandy beach.





This world class waterfront period property located at the mouth of Ballisadare bay provides dynamic and truly breathtaking views across Sligo Bay. It comes with 1000ft of waterside frontage including the original boathouse and a slipway leading down to a small sandy beach with two moorings. The area, famous for its intense natural beauty, would make an ideal home for both busy and creative people, where it is possible to switch off or just unwind and observe from the Watchtower with a glass of wine or cup of coffee and reflect on life. You can totally loose yourself in these spectacular surroundings while watching the resident seals at play, catching sight of the occasional pod of dolphins pushing mackerel up the bay or just keeping a lazy eye on the local lobster fishermen working the shorelines.

This entirely unique property has been delightfully refurbished with all internal woodwork in solid light oak. It now offers bright and most comfortably arranged spacious accommodation with outstanding views across the bay to the mountains beyond. The accommodation is spread over two levels and consisting of 3 main reception rooms, the study, an office and a library together with five bedrooms, five bathrooms, kitchen, utility room, shell room, pantry and boot room. Four of the bedrooms have en-suite bathrooms. The main house and watchtower stand as a large classic period stone structure in the centre of an outstanding coastal site extending to about 7 acres. The main feature of the front façade is the striking period Gothic head windows and front door. The front gardens are laid out as two lawns with a central pathway and steps leading from the upper to the lower front lawn. The front gardens are enclosed by stone walls and native shrubbery to provide protection from the elements. To the rear of the house there is a secure and sheltered paved (300 sq. m.) courtyard which houses the original stone fresh water well and useful outbuildings which have all been modernised. These outbuildings consist of 5 original coastguard station buildings; two recently built garages and a green house. The property’s water supply comes from both the local supply and a deep drilled private well. The property is serviced with broadband, landline and CCTV (world wide web based).

The Old Coastguard Station is located on the south-western shores of the Ballisadare Bay just as it joins Sligo Bay. The property is about 5 minutes from the village of Beltra, 11 minutes from Ballisadare and 18 minutes from Sligo Town (A Gateway City).
The cities of Dublin and Belfast with their respective International Airports are both about 2hrs 30 minutes away. The Sligo Airport at Strandhill is 30 minutes distant and has two daily flights to Dublin. Knock International Airport, a very busy airport, flies throughout Europe and it is only a 45 minute journey. The local main train line provides eight trains a day to Dublin. The region has a number of excellent golf courses including the internationally known links courses at Rosses Point and Enniscrone, which are within 30 minutes drive. The area is renowned for both sea and river fishing, with a deepwater mooring at Portland less than 1km away. The famous Moy River and Ballisadare Rivers are substantially stocked with both trout and salmon.
Sligo is the home to both W B Yeats (the world renowned poet laureate) who is buried at Drumcliffe, and The Countess Constance Markievicz, the distinguished Irish freedom fighter who lived at Lissadell House.

If you are a competitive sailor one can join the well known Sligo Yacht Club situated at Rosses Point or you can walk the beach at low tide and find oysters at Drumcliffe or razor clams at Portavard. To really get away from it all, the present owner enjoys taking his fast boat across the bay (20Min’s) to Coney Island for a pint or two at the only pub on the Island.

Please note that Waterside Properties are offering this property on behalf of the owner in conjunction with Knight Frank Estate Agents in Ireland, and prospective purchasers should contact them on 00353 1 662 3255, or visit their website www.knightfrank.ie

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