{"id":357151,"date":"2026-03-21T03:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357151\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T03:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:15:08","slug":"iconic-donegal-cottage-on-34-acres-hits-market-for-just-e78k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357151\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Donegal cottage on 34 acres hits market for just \u20ac78k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Main pic: The cottage at Dunmore, Falcarragh. Photo: McBride Auctioneers.<\/p>\n<p>An iconic and unique west Donegal cottage on 34.5 acres has gone on the market with an asking price of \u20ac78,000.<\/p>\n<p>The traditional three-bedroom structure, at Dunmore, Falcarragh, has been described as an ideal \u2018fixer upper\u2019 eligible for new grants to upgrade the main residence.<\/p>\n<p>According to the selling against, McBride Auctioneers in Derrybeg, the cottage is ready for refurbishment and \u2018bringing back to its former glory\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Accommodation comprises an open plan living room, two bedrooms and a barn. However, there are no bathrooms in this building.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-627321\" class=\"wp-image-627321 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Falcarragh-cottage-Traditional-Cottages-of-Donegal-book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-627321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cottage in 2012. Pic: Traditional Cottages of County Donegal by Joseph Gallagher and Greg Stevenson.<\/p>\n<p>The property was featured in the best selling book, Traditional Cottages of County Donegal (Joseph Gallagher and Greg Stevenson), which was published in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>It describes the multiple roof lines and roofing materials on this extended farmstead as a demonstration of \u2018the evolution of the cottage form\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The separate entrances are said to suggest the different functions served by the various outbuildings and elongation of the original one-roomed cabin over time.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on the Irish Vernacular Architecture Facebook page this week, Mr Stevenson said: \u201cThis is one of the best Donegal cottages \u2013 so much so that I gave it a big photo in my book \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.siopagaeilge.ie\/products\/traditional-cottages-of-county-donegal-joseph-gallagher-greg-stevenson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traditional Cottages of County Donegal<\/a>\u2018 \u2013 and it\u2019s a bargain with that much land. No idea who is selling it but it\u2019s a gem. Please, someone, buy it and stop it becoming a nasty newbuild plot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Iconic Donegal cottage on 34 acres hits market for just \u20ac78k was last modified:  March 20th, 2026 by Cronan Scanlon<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Main pic: The cottage at Dunmore, Falcarragh. Photo: McBride Auctioneers. An iconic and unique west Donegal cottage on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[161899,11243,61,60,43,161900,161901],"class_list":["post-357151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-donegal-cottage-for-sale","tag-donegal-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-traditional-cottages-of-county-donegal-book","tag-traditional-donegal-cottage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}