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That house is HUGE by Irish standards! Congrats! We loved Ireland while there on our honeymoon in 2012. The place is just SO GREEN, I never realized it and thought it was just some stereotypical “Emerald Isle” stuff, and then I saw the country from the air while on descent into Dublin. Beautiful. | |||
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I just saw this thread. 15 years ago i bought an unfinished 3 BR home near Kinsale in County Cork. I finished it off and loved spending time there, but my primary residence changed from Orange County CA to Lake County MT. Getting to Kinsale became problematic, and I LOVE Montana. A few years later I sold the Cork home, but I often find myself thinking it might be good place to hunker down in the Montana winters. | |||
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I love it when a plan comes together! Congrats on snagging a great house! | |||
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More pix for those that are interested. Here's the view from the upstairs bedrooms. That's one of two abandoned farmhouses on the right... those fields are used for grazing cows, although I've yet to see one. Beyond the headlands on the left, barely visible on the horizon in this pic, is the Atlantic:  The rear "reception" room...that stove is hooked up to the home's radiators. My neighbor tells me that if you burn enough peat, long enough (as in all day to get it going), you can heat the upstairs bedrooms' radiators. That neighbor heats their entire home that way, buying 1 ton of peat per year that he stores in his garage:  Master bedroom, a part of it at least:  We're on an un-named, single lane country road. The property next door is a very old farmhouse that is no longer inhabited. The farmer's family uses the lot to store winter silage, they were harvesting last week... only about 10 houses are on this country road. My wife and I would pick up our head every time we heard a car go by and wonder "Now who is that and what are they doing on our road?" That's very different than the thoughts we have in Connecticut.  ___________________ Company, villainous company hath been the spoil of me. | |||
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My wife and I visited Ireland last year, and Cong in particular was our highlight(we are big fans of the movie "The Quiet Man"). We really enjoyed our time in Ireland and I toyed with the idea of a vacation home in the Cong area. EDIT: I should have read further. Congratulations o your home purchase! It's beautiful! . | |||
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Truly Lovely. | |||
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How close are you to the Killarney National Park? | |||
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Congratulations! That is absolutely beautiful. "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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Congratulations and welcome to Ireland. Glad you got here eventually. .................................................. "Governments may think and say as they like, but force cannot be eliminated, and it is the only real and unanswerable power. We are told that the pen is mightier than the sword, but I know which of these weapons I would choose. - Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart, VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO. | |||
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Citadel - Killarney National Park is a good ways away… our house is about 200 miles north of Killarney itself. ___________________ Company, villainous company hath been the spoil of me. | |||
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Okaaaaaaaaay. As an incomer, you won't be able to import your own firearms. After having lived there for a few years, and gotten some residency time, you will probably be able to get a licence for a rifle or a shotgun - maybe even both, providing you can demonstrate to the Gardaí that you have a need for them. As for handguns, the only handgun you will be able to license - and EACH firearm in the Republic has a separate license, currently 80 Euros for three years - will be a five-shot .22calibre. There are no centre-fires being licensed since 2009. To get a handgun you MUST be a member of a gun club that actually has handgun shooting on the agenda - most do not. There is NO reloading, unless you are part of the national squad of rifle shooters and shoot at the National Shooting Centre at Tullaghmore. Possession of components, that is to say, bullets, primers and propellant for the manufacture of ammunition - will land you in VERY hot water indeed. You have just met the Prevention of Terrorism Act, which has some serious jail time attached to infringements thereof. A box of bullets can earn you five years of the residency you are looking for, but your wife won't be with you while you enjoy it. There is NO black powder shooting of any kind, unless you count a VERY small following of black powder shotgun cartridges. Gun club membership is expensive, but then you sound like the kind of person for whom money is not a problem - but figure on between 400 and 600 euros a year. There is usually an initial joining fee, like that for the national centre, of around a further 500 - 600 euros. There is no shooting off your back [or front] porch. Unless you are shooting game or pests - each is a good reason to own some kind of a rifle or shotgun - all other shooting, including zeroing your own rifle, must take place on a range of which you are a member. Plinking at a tin can even on your own land is a big no-no - it's classed a target shooting, and you can't target shoot on your own property - it is not a range. Figure on guns and ammunition costing at least twice or even three times what you currently pay - even .22cal - and you won't be far off. It all has to be imported. Typically, something like 100gr .243 costs 50eu for a box of 20. See - https://www.sportsdengunroom.i...-jacketed-soft-point. You will be also be seriously limited as to the amount of ammunition that you can have at any time. I recommend that you join boards.ie shooting forum and explain your circumstances - there are a few people there who are extremely helpful to those in your position - grizzly is one such person - tell him I sent you. All airguns over 1 Joule are also classed as firearms. All airgun ammunition - ie pellets, are classed as firearms ammunition - this can lead to some ludicrous situations where a shooter might be limited to 250 pellets at a time. Any part of a firearm is classed as a firearm. A stock screw? You need to have a firearms license to buy it. Sure, you can have guns, but it will NOT be easy. Give a call to Fingal Sports at Baldaragh - they'll likely advise you better than I can. sales@fingalsports.com EDIT. I note that this is an older thread. If you are not going to become a citizen of the Republic, and your new house is a vacation home, rather than a permanent address, then you will have to lodge your guns with a local RFD/LGS for the time you are away. They can not be left in an otherwise empty house under any circumstances. Let us know how you got on....This message has been edited. Last edited by: tacfoley, | |||
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