Going with the flow in a Howth home with extensive outdoor water features

"Most of us long to live beside a river or a the sea. But Howth resident Robert Healy has taken that quest to its zenith. Since buying Carrigkeal, a 6,500 sq ft luxury home overlooking Dublin Bay in Howth, the retired design business owner has turned the property into a Mediterranean style terraced home where he has surrounded himself with "the sound of water". In doing so, he spent a quarter of a million."

"With all his projects over the years, there's a common flow to the work he has done on this home which looks out to sea. "I wanted to hear water no matter where I was on the one acre of land, so I got water installations around the garden." After moving in, the couple spent €250,000 doing up the garden. "It was a lot of money back then, but it would be so much more now," says Healy."

Robert Healy, a retired design business owner, bought Carrigkeal, a 6,500 sq ft luxury home overlooking Dublin Bay in Howth. He transformed the property into a Mediterranean-style terraced house across one acre, installing multiple water features to ensure the sound of water is audible from everywhere on the land. The garden renovation cost €250,000. The house has five bedrooms, a stained glass window in the living room, and a functioning well with a thatched roof in the driveway. Healy and his wife use a Spanish home part of the year and now seek a smaller property while continuing to add personal touches.

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