{"id":576106,"date":"2026-07-30T21:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/576106\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T21:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:07:12","slug":"new-owners-of-spectacular-donegal-beachfront-property-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/576106\/","title":{"rendered":"New owners of spectacular Donegal beachfront property revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new owners of a spectacular beachfront property on 85 acres in west Donegal have been revealed.<\/p>\n

Tara and Christopher Vecellio, an American couple, bought the Cruit Island holding for a cool \u20ac1.5M in May, 2024.<\/p>\n

It includes a beautiful four-bedroom farmhouse, constructed in 1934, and a private beach close to Daniel and Majella O\u2019Donnell\u2019s former home. There is also an old granary building and two historic derelict cottages, one of which is thatched.<\/p>\n

At the time of the sale, handled by Dublin firm Savills, Donegal Daily revealed<\/a> that the new owners were based overseas and planned to renovate the property while keeping the historical features of the buildings intact.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This week the couple, who have strong Donegal connections, lodged ambition plans with Donegal County Council for the refurbishment and restoration of a number of the buildings.<\/p>\n

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The two-store house, longhouse and thatched cottage. Pic: Savills.<\/p>\n

The proposed development will include the refurbishment and rethatching of the thatched cottage as well as the construction of a new single storey kitchen, dining and living area and lightweight link building to the cottage. <\/p>\n

There are also plans for the refurbishment of the vacant two-storey house, the granary building (for an artist\u2019s studio) and the beach house. <\/p>\n

In addition, the Vecellios are also seeking permission for the demolition and reconstruction of the long cottage, and providing a built link between it and the dwelling-house.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The granary building, part of which will be converted for use as an artist’s studio. Pic: Savills.<\/p>\n

According to documents lodged with the application by Allan Curran Architects in Donegal Town: \u201cWe and our clients are keen that the site continues to evolve in a way that respects the past while adapting to modern life.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Cruit Island Golf Course bounds the property to the north-west. The island is connected to the mainland at Belcruit by a bridge which was built at the time of World War II.<\/p>\n

Council planners are due to make a decision on the application by late September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new owners of a spectacular beachfront property on 85 acres in west Donegal have been revealed. Tara…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-576106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576106","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=576106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}