A cottage and its lighthouse for sale in Ireland for €75,000

An opportunity not to be missed... if you like Irish solitude and isolation!

Gwen Rouviere
by Gwen Le Cointre
25 September 2019, 09:52
A cottage and its lighthouse for sale in Ireland for €75,000
Le phare et son cottage de Rathlin O'Birne island actuellement en vente

The offer has just been published: a cottage and its lighthouse are currently on sale in Ireland for the modest sum of €75,000. The only snag is that the property is located on Rathlin O’Birne Island, an uninhabited Irish island off the Donegal coast. And there’s work to be done!

It’s now or never: if you’re not afraid of isolation, and you’d like to live your daily life in an unspoilt setting, facing the sea, on a magnificent island, then this is an opportunity not to be missed!

The cottage offers a wealth of possibilities: conversion into a bed and breakfast, vacation rental, or a home to live in yourself… Not to mention the lighthouse, which is in perfect working order, and which you’ll have to maintain to get the boats back to port!

Rathlin O'Birne island lighthouse and cottage currently for sale

Rathlin O’Birne island lighthouse and cottage currently for sale

The project may seem perfect, but the uninhabited island has no infrastructure: no electricity, no Internet, no drinking water, no telephone or wastewater treatment. In short, total autarky, where you’ll be cut off from the rest of the world, and therefore forced to buy supplies regularly from the continent!

As for the cottage, it requires total restoration: an opportunity to start from scratch and rely on 100% renewable energies that respect the environment!

What’s up? Does it still make you dream? Although the conditions seem harsh, the property costs €75,000, and offers you a fabulous setting! An attractive proposition, aimed at courageous buyers unafraid of the island’s precarious conditions!


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