House of the week: Heavenly habitation in a villa-style Killiney home for €4 million
The grand period residence stands upon two acres of manicured lawns in this desirable destination on the south Dublin coast
Way before it became synonymous with rock star residences and visiting Hollywood celebrities, Killiney was long established as a desirable destination. Samuel Lewis’s Topographical History of Ireland, published in 1837, reads, “The Hills of Killiney are visited by many parties of pleasure in summer, at which season Killiney and its vicinity are favourite places of residence and several pretty villas and rustic cottages have been erected for such as may take up their abode there.” A decade later, a commentator to the Penny Journal enthused of this area of the south Dublin coastline as “a situation of unrivalled beauty and grandeur”.
