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They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder and certainly this must be true when one sees this most unique cottage holding on the South Connemara coastline. The cottage once home to renowned sculptor the Late Edward Delaney RHA who created a sculpture park on the lands to display his creative works. On the edge of the Atlantic Ocean the cottage had a large architect designed extension added to create a family home with the original cottage been used as a studio. In a very private setting the property stands on total site of 8.73Ha (21.56 acres) with the cottage for sale to include 3.00 Hectares (7.41 acres) and the balance of the lands available by separate negotiations (please see map). At the foot of the garden there is a sandy beach and a rarely used public quay, this is wonderful amenity for the property. In need of major refurbishment the property has unlimited potential to create a luxury sea side holiday home or permanent residence. Properties with such space, land and sea access rarely present themselves to the market in the Connemara region. For those looking for a property which is totally unique in every way then this piece of paradise is a must to be seen to fully appreciate it's setting, natural amenities and it's unlimited potential. For further details and to arrange an inspection please contact the sole selling agents DNG Martin O'Connor Tel (091)866708.

Description

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder and certainly this must be true when one sees this most unique cottage holding on the South Connemara coastline. The cottage once home to renowned sculptor the Late Edward Delaney RHA who created a sculpture park on the lands to display his creative works. On the edge of the Atlantic Ocean the cottage had a large architect designed extension added to create a family home with the original cottage b ...

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Features

Sea side holding Overlooking Rosaveal & Casla Bay Cottage with large architect designed extension Beach and public quay within 50 metres off cottage Large holding of land (for sale in two sections) Private setting Excellent potential

Features

Sea side holdingOverlooking Rosaveal & Casla BayCottage with large architect designed extensionBeach and public quay within 50 metres off cottageLarge holding of land (for sale in two sections)Private settingExcellent potential

BER Details

BER: G BER No. 105634216 Energy Performance Indicator: 701.41 kWh/m²/yr

Directions

In Carraroe village turn left after the Church & School onto Bothar An Cilin. Along this road take the first left turning and drive up the hill and continue on to the end of this road. The property is located at end of the road on the right hand side.

Viewing Details

Viewings are strictly by prior appointment only. Please call the sole selling agents DNG Martin O'Connor on 091 866708 or email oughterard@dng.ie

The Property & its History

Set on 21.56 acres of sea-facing fields, heather and hillside, and perched overlooking the quiet beach and small rarely used pier at An Caorán Mór, is a property with a unique place in the history cultural and artistic life of Ireland. It’s here that Edward Delaney RHA, one of Ireland’s leading 20th century artists, applied his artistic ambition and vision, creating a body of work informed by the landscape, light and air of south Connemara. Edward Delaney had been told of a seaside property for sale in Connemara that the actor Peter O’Toole had taken an interest in. O’Toole, who had roots in Connemara and later made a home near Clifden, was then acting on the Dublin stage and spending time carousing and playing traditional music in Galway. Without seeing the property for himself, Delaney stole a march on O’Toole, took a leap and formed a relationship with Connemara, An Cheathrú Rua and specifically An Caorán Mór that went unbroken until his death there in 2009. Brendan Behan, an acquaintance of Delaney’s during his Dublin days, had stayed for a spell at An Caorán Mór in 1959. Behan recorded his visit in his 1962 book, ‘Brendan Behan’s Island’ which included a sketch of the farmhouse Edward Delaney would eventually buy, drawn by English artist Paul Hogarth. Behan was a great proponent of the Irish language which to this day remains central to life and identity in this part of Ireland , and wrote warmly in the book of Connemara, An Cheathrú Rua and the friends he had there such as the Griffin and Nolan families in An Caorán Mór. Delaney was not the first bohemian to blow into the area. Edward Delaney had been raised in the hinterland of Claremorris in County Mayo. At the end of the 1960s and fresh from the success of unveiling his bronze memorial sculptures of Wolfe Tone and Thomas Davis in Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green & College Green, Delaney sought out the West once again. Connemara’s particular light and elemental landscape had attracted artists such as Paul Henry and Charles Lamb, and, later, Walter Verling, Thomas Ryan, and Carey Clarke among many others. A few years after acquiring the Caorán Mór house and land, he set about building a modern home while retaining the original farmhouse as his studio and workshop. The house, completed in 1975 was designed by architect Patrick Rooney with an emphasis on it’s view of sheltering Casla Bay, where on the far shore a Martello tower kept vigil over small currachs moving among the lobster pots, the trawlers heading to sea and ferries bound for Aran to the south. A short cherry-lined path led to the beach and pier and shoreline dotted with rockpools and swimming spots. Once a year a parade of galway hookers raced from the head of the bay, bound for Kinvara While still based primarily in Dublin, Eddie Delaney spent long spells in the west with his young family, hosting artists and writers, and experimenting with new materials, forms and methods while the children roamed the fields and shore. Later Delaney moved on a permanent basis to the west and devoted his energy to populating the the fields and hillside with an unusual crop: stainless steel sculpture. Stainless steel was an unusual choice of material in Ireland then and now, and never likely to garner the same popular interest as more traditional bronze, but the creative restlessness drove Delaney to pioneer dynamic new creations. An Caorán Mór soon hosted bright abstract shapes, many three metres or more tall, dotting the fields and hill with an eye to how they would interact with the granite, heather, sea and sky, or how they would reverberate and move in the winds blowing in from the south west. Many sculptures were striking cylindrical constructions or abstracted tree shapes, with canopies of quivering steel struts. Others were spray-painted blues, reds and greens. An example of this type stands at the ESB offices at Sean Mulvoy Road in Galway. Some of the last steel sculptures erected at Caorán Mór were coated in sand and tar, reflecting the canvas currachs, still tested in races every summer weekend along the Connemara coast. What became the Carraroe Sculpture Park was the unique work of Edward Delaney, welding, cutting, polishing and hoisting into position hefty sculptures single-handedly. Visitors were often struck to find such modern art in a Paul Henry-esque landscape of stony fields, turf reeks and Galway Hookers. Friends, fellow artists, musicians and writers visited and stayed: close friend Garech de Brun, actor John Hurt, director John Boorman, musician Paddy Maloney of the Chieftains, poets Seamus Heaney and John Montague, artists Bobby Ballagh, Michael Farrell, Charlie Brady, Michael Mulcahy, Jackie and Campbell Bruce among many others. In the 1990s in the studio that constituted the original farm house, Eddie returned to casting bronze. With a ceramic oven for making moulds and a large deafening furnace for melting and alloying metals, Delaney was again casting bronze as he had learned in Munich and Rome, and had practised in Dun Laoghaire. Finally, in his 70s and no longer physically able to work, Edward Delaney left the house at Caorán Mór, though returning when he could, to sit at his studio door with its view of of Casla Bay, the Aran Islands and the low forms of the Burren on the horizon. Now An Caorán Mór awaits a new owner and another chapter in its storied history.

Location & Amenities

An Cheathrú Rua or Carraroe is the main population of South Connemara and the principal town in the Connemara Gaeltacht. 40km from Galway City it is situated on a peninsula, with Casla Bay to the east and Greatman’s Bay to the west. The shoreline is dotted with beaches, the most famous of which is the Dóilín or the Coral Strand, made from an unusual coralline algae known as maerl. An Cheathrú Rua is a centre of cultural and social life with a strong emphasis on the Irish language and traditional crafts and activities. Few places in Ireland have a stronger everyday usage of the Irish language. NUIG has located some of its Irish language department here, while Radio na Gaeltachta and TG4 broadcast from nearby. The sea and traditional boats are central to life in An Cheathrú Rua and nearby. Casla Bay, Greatman’s Bay and Kilkieran Bay are home waters for many of the Galway Hookers, na Báid Mhóra, and their smaller cousins gleoiteogs and púcáns. These traditional sailing craft are raced up and down the Connemara coast at regattas held every weekend during the summer. The race from Sruthán Pier at the head of Casla Bay to Kinvara at the head of Galway Bay sees the waters off the shore at An Caorán Mór filled with sail every summer. Canvas currachs are also raced in intense sea races at regattas while wooden currachs found all along the shore are used for fishing, checking lobster pots and pleasure. An Cheatrú Rua hosts many of the services for the South Connemara region including pubs, shops, doctors, schools, a library, ambulance service, Garda station, garages, sporting facilities and clubs etc.

Description

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder and certainly this must be true when one sees this most unique cottage holding on the South Connemara coastline. The cottage once home to renowned sculptor the Late Edward Delaney RHA who created a sculpture park on the lands to display his creative works. On the edge of the Atlantic Ocean the cottage had a large architect designed extension added to create a family home with the original cottage been used as a studio. In a very private setting the property stands on total site of 8.73Ha (21.56 acres) with the cottage for sale to include 3.00 Hectares (7.41 acres) and the balance of the lands available by separate negotiations (please see map). At the foot of the garden there is a sandy beach and a rarely used public quay, this is wonderful amenity for the property. In need of major refurbishment the property has unlimited potential to create a luxury sea side holiday home or permanent residence. Properties with such space, land and sea access rarely present themselves to the market in the Connemara region. For those looking for a property which is totally unique in every way then this piece of paradise is a must to be seen to fully appreciate it's setting, natural amenities and it's unlimited potential. For further details and to arrange an inspection please contact the sole selling agents DNG Martin O'Connor Tel (091)866708.

Description

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder and certainly this must be true when one sees this most unique cottage holding on the South Connemara coastline. The cottage once home to renowned sculptor the Late Edward Delaney RHA who created a sculpture park on the lands to display his creative works. On the edge of the Atlantic Ocean the cottage had a large architect designed extension added to create a family home with the original cottage b ...

Rooms

Features

Sea side holding Overlooking Rosaveal & Casla Bay Cottage with large architect designed extension Beach and public quay within 50 metres off cottage Large holding of land (for sale in two sections) Private setting Excellent potential

Features

Sea side holdingOverlooking Rosaveal & Casla BayCottage with large architect designed extensionBeach and public quay within 50 metres off cottageLarge holding of land (for sale in two sections)Private settingExcellent potential

BER Details

BER: G BER No. 105634216 Energy Performance Indicator: 701.41 kWh/m²/yr

Directions

In Carraroe village turn left after the Church & School onto Bothar An Cilin. Along this road take the first left turning and drive up the hill and continue on to the end of this road. The property is located at end of the road on the right hand side.

Viewing Details

Viewings are strictly by prior appointment only. Please call the sole selling agents DNG Martin O'Connor on 091 866708 or email oughterard@dng.ie

The Property & its History

Set on 21.56 acres of sea-facing fields, heather and hillside, and perched overlooking the quiet beach and small rarely used pier at An Caorán Mór, is a property with a unique place in the history cultural and artistic life of Ireland. It’s here that Edward Delaney RHA, one of Ireland’s leading 20th century artists, applied his artistic ambition and vision, creating a body of work informed by the landscape, light and air of south Connemara. Edward Delaney had been told of a seaside property for sale in Connemara that the actor Peter O’Toole had taken an interest in. O’Toole, who had roots in Connemara and later made a home near Clifden, was then acting on the Dublin stage and spending time carousing and playing traditional music in Galway. Without seeing the property for himself, Delaney stole a march on O’Toole, took a leap and formed a relationship with Connemara, An Cheathrú Rua and specifically An Caorán Mór that went unbroken until his death there in 2009. Brendan Behan, an acquaintance of Delaney’s during his Dublin days, had stayed for a spell at An Caorán Mór in 1959. Behan recorded his visit in his 1962 book, ‘Brendan Behan’s Island’ which included a sketch of the farmhouse Edward Delaney would eventually buy, drawn by English artist Paul Hogarth. Behan was a great proponent of the Irish language which to this day remains central to life and identity in this part of Ireland , and wrote warmly in the book of Connemara, An Cheathrú Rua and the friends he had there such as the Griffin and Nolan families in An Caorán Mór. Delaney was not the first bohemian to blow into the area. Edward Delaney had been raised in the hinterland of Claremorris in County Mayo. At the end of the 1960s and fresh from the success of unveiling his bronze memorial sculptures of Wolfe Tone and Thomas Davis in Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green & College Green, Delaney sought out the West once again. Connemara’s particular light and elemental landscape had attracted artists such as Paul Henry and Charles Lamb, and, later, Walter Verling, Thomas Ryan, and Carey Clarke among many others. A few years after acquiring the Caorán Mór house and land, he set about building a modern home while retaining the original farmhouse as his studio and workshop. The house, completed in 1975 was designed by architect Patrick Rooney with an emphasis on it’s view of sheltering Casla Bay, where on the far shore a Martello tower kept vigil over small currachs moving among the lobster pots, the trawlers heading to sea and ferries bound for Aran to the south. A short cherry-lined path led to the beach and pier and shoreline dotted with rockpools and swimming spots. Once a year a parade of galway hookers raced from the head of the bay, bound for Kinvara While still based primarily in Dublin, Eddie Delaney spent long spells in the west with his young family, hosting artists and writers, and experimenting with new materials, forms and methods while the children roamed the fields and shore. Later Delaney moved on a permanent basis to the west and devoted his energy to populating the the fields and hillside with an unusual crop: stainless steel sculpture. Stainless steel was an unusual choice of material in Ireland then and now, and never likely to garner the same popular interest as more traditional bronze, but the creative restlessness drove Delaney to pioneer dynamic new creations. An Caorán Mór soon hosted bright abstract shapes, many three metres or more tall, dotting the fields and hill with an eye to how they would interact with the granite, heather, sea and sky, or how they would reverberate and move in the winds blowing in from the south west. Many sculptures were striking cylindrical constructions or abstracted tree shapes, with canopies of quivering steel struts. Others were spray-painted blues, reds and greens. An example of this type stands at the ESB offices at Sean Mulvoy Road in Galway. Some of the last steel sculptures erected at Caorán Mór were coated in sand and tar, reflecting the canvas currachs, still tested in races every summer weekend along the Connemara coast. What became the Carraroe Sculpture Park was the unique work of Edward Delaney, welding, cutting, polishing and hoisting into position hefty sculptures single-handedly. Visitors were often struck to find such modern art in a Paul Henry-esque landscape of stony fields, turf reeks and Galway Hookers. Friends, fellow artists, musicians and writers visited and stayed: close friend Garech de Brun, actor John Hurt, director John Boorman, musician Paddy Maloney of the Chieftains, poets Seamus Heaney and John Montague, artists Bobby Ballagh, Michael Farrell, Charlie Brady, Michael Mulcahy, Jackie and Campbell Bruce among many others. In the 1990s in the studio that constituted the original farm house, Eddie returned to casting bronze. With a ceramic oven for making moulds and a large deafening furnace for melting and alloying metals, Delaney was again casting bronze as he had learned in Munich and Rome, and had practised in Dun Laoghaire. Finally, in his 70s and no longer physically able to work, Edward Delaney left the house at Caorán Mór, though returning when he could, to sit at his studio door with its view of of Casla Bay, the Aran Islands and the low forms of the Burren on the horizon. Now An Caorán Mór awaits a new owner and another chapter in its storied history.

Location & Amenities

An Cheathrú Rua or Carraroe is the main population of South Connemara and the principal town in the Connemara Gaeltacht. 40km from Galway City it is situated on a peninsula, with Casla Bay to the east and Greatman’s Bay to the west. The shoreline is dotted with beaches, the most famous of which is the Dóilín or the Coral Strand, made from an unusual coralline algae known as maerl. An Cheathrú Rua is a centre of cultural and social life with a strong emphasis on the Irish language and traditional crafts and activities. Few places in Ireland have a stronger everyday usage of the Irish language. NUIG has located some of its Irish language department here, while Radio na Gaeltachta and TG4 broadcast from nearby. The sea and traditional boats are central to life in An Cheathrú Rua and nearby. Casla Bay, Greatman’s Bay and Kilkieran Bay are home waters for many of the Galway Hookers, na Báid Mhóra, and their smaller cousins gleoiteogs and púcáns. These traditional sailing craft are raced up and down the Connemara coast at regattas held every weekend during the summer. The race from Sruthán Pier at the head of Casla Bay to Kinvara at the head of Galway Bay sees the waters off the shore at An Caorán Mór filled with sail every summer. Canvas currachs are also raced in intense sea races at regattas while wooden currachs found all along the shore are used for fishing, checking lobster pots and pleasure. An Cheatrú Rua hosts many of the services for the South Connemara region including pubs, shops, doctors, schools, a library, ambulance service, Garda station, garages, sporting facilities and clubs etc.
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Date created: May 19, 2014

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