Griffin Rath Manor - ,, Maynooth, Co. Kildare

Strategically located close to the historic town of Maynooth – Griffin Rath Manor is a truly remarkable new style development combining stunning detached and semi-detached family homes alongside contemporary designed town houses and duplex apartments. Built by Ballygoran Developments to their usual excellent high standards each home is constructed using traditional and modern techniques creating properties of elegance and distinction. Renowned for their quality and design, material, fixtures and fittings are chosen from Ireland’s and Europe’s leading manufacturers.

Houses and apartments are constructed with light red stock facing brick and pebble dash finish. High levels of wall, roof and floor insulation, together with hermetically sealed glazing units ensure that the properties are comfortable and economical to heat.

Interior specification is nothing less than sumptuous. These highly specified houses and apartments include a comprehensive range of modern facilities and offer spacious accommodation throughout. Interior styling and finish provide the ultimate in modern living and luxury.

As you would expect from such a development, there is a huge variety of detached and semi-detached homes, set amid townhouses with many offering views of landscaped open space. The decor, fittings and appliances of all properties have been carefully selected and coordinated to provide contemporary styling that is both welcoming and functional.

Sumptuously appointed living spaces create an ambience of elegance and tranquillity. Every reception room and hallway, every kitchen and bathroom, every bedroom and ensuite is finished to the same matchless standards, the finest materials and craftsmanship.

ExteriorSeeded front and rear gardensTimber trellis style fencing to side boundariesCobble locked front entranceBin storage to front (Griffin Rath Hall)

Interior* Purchaser can select from top class range of tiles (Voucher supplied)
* Sanitary ware by Ideal Bathroom from the “House of Villeroy and Boch” in house types A, B & C
* Quality fitted wardrobes
* Painted throughout
* Generous tiling allowance throughout
* Hardwood panelled doors to ground floor
* Gas fired central heating
* Plumbed for washing machine & dishwasher
* Fitted alarm


AdditionalThe Management Company will provide for the maintenance of common areas, and removal of waste, an annual fee will apply (Apartments and Duplexes)This specification is for guidance only. The promoter operates a policy of continuous product improvement and therefore some elements and details might changeHomebond ten year guaranteeOpen space landscaped.

Elevations

Elegant facades have been created using a natural pallet of materials including:* Tiled roof
* External hardwood windows and doors
* PVC fascia and soffit
* Cedar timber horizontal cladding (to most house types)
* All windows have ‘Low E’ double glazing
* Highest standards of wall and roof insulation.

Maynooth College, founded just over 200 years ago, is an excellent family day trip. The classically-styled college set in mature parkland is now a bustling university and the ruined castle at the gates of the college was formerly the home of the Fitzgerald family.

Maynooth offers a wide variety of leisure pursuits including golfing, football, tennis, horse riding, fly fishing and canal bank walks. The grounds of St. Patricks College run parallel to the Royal Canal.

Maynooth is an area which can boast a unique heritage and past. Strategically located 15 miles west of the the Capital. Since the arrival of the Fitzgerald’s in the 13th Century who built the castle in the town, the local landscape has always been dominated by some of the finest homes and mansions in the country. With Carton Demesne only a short distance away, now home to one of the country’s best international 18th hole championship Golf Courses, another architectural gem is Castletown House built by ‘Speaker’ Thomas Connolly at the end of the 18th Century.

Access with peace and quiet

Maynooth retains that quaint Irish town atmosphere with an attractive range of small quality shops offering everything for today’s shopper, while the recently completed new Tesco retail supermarket provides a pleasant weekly shopping experience.

Maynooth is located within easy reach of towns such as Celbridge, Kilcock, Naas and Newbridge all offering a vast array of leading retail stores, high street fashion outlets, exclusive boutiques, specialist decor and interior design shops.

The selection of traditional country pubs along its tree lined main avenue, offer the passerby the opportunity to sit back, relax and enjoy a quieter pace of life. In one of the many coffee houses or restaurants savour a coffee, cappucino, latte or glass of wine and observe the world as it passes you by.

Nearby, Liffey Valley offers perhaps the best ‘shopping mall’ experience with other retail outlets such as Blanchardstown Town Centre, Dunnes Stores, Manor Mill and the Square Tallaght all within easy access of the M50 Motorway. Or if the bright lights of Grafton Street beckon, the City Centre is only twenty minutes away by car, rail or bus.

At nighttime you are spoiled for choice with many fine restaurants located in the town offering the best selection of Irish, Mediterranean, Oriental or Far Eastern cuisine to choose from.

Griffin Rath Manor is located 1 mile outside Maynooth town on the R405 Maynooth to Celbridge road. With easy access of the M4 motorway at both the Maynooth and Celbridge Interchanges, the city can be accessed within 20 minutes at off peak times. With the new M4 Kinnegad to Athlone motorway due for completion in 2007, accessibility to the West and North West of the country will be greatly improved with estimated travelling time to Galway being reduced by 45 minutes.

For those commuting to the capital daily, an excellent commuter rail services operates between Maynooth Station and Connolly Station, trains running frequently at peak hours and throughout the rest of the day.

Transport and accessibility

Further commuter connections can be made throughout the City via the LUAS Green Line from St. Stephen Green to Sandyford or via the Luas Red Line from Connolly Station to Tallaght. Dublin Bus also provides an excellent commuter service taking in Leixlip & Lucan with busses running frequently at peak hours.

Architects:
Group Design Architects.
Builder:
Ballygoran Developments Ltd.

Solicitors:
J. V. Tighe
Main street, Celbridge,
Co. Kildare