Elegant and detached, these spacious houses are right beside the championship golf course, but better still they qualify for Section 23 tax relief.

A historic property, Lough Rynn is a Victorian Manor House, although it's always been known locally as a castle. The ancestral home of the Earls of Leitrim, the original estate was once a massive 96,000 acres.

Now newly restored and re-developed, Lough Rynn Estate incorporates not only a championship golf course, designer homes, and period gardens which have been partially restored by TV gardener Diarmuid Gavin, but also has a leisure centre, spa, restaurants, conference facilities and upmarket family-run hotel.

Sensitively developed, the new clubhouse is hidden behind an old woodland area, while the conference facilities are incorporated into the main house, and the leisure centre is within the grounds of the walled garden. The French Stable Block, originally designed by Howard & Dean, who designed Aras an Uachtarain, now houses many of the hotel bedrooms, while the newly-built townhouses are designed to replicate an old courtyard.

On offer are 31 large detached fourbed houses which come in four styles, and range in size from 140sq m to 165sq m (1510sq ft to 1775sq ft). Also available are some courtyard townhouses of around 110sq m (1190sq ft).

All homes include free golf membership, while other impressive features that come as standard include German-designed Alno kitchens with granite worktops, marble or stone fireplaces, solid oak flooring, gas central heating with remote-controlled fires, central vacuum system, walk-in wardrobes, Jacuzzi bath, fitted attic stairs, and fully installed alarm system.

Price: three-bed townhouses from 375,000 and four-bed detached houses from 559,000.

Agent: Hooke & MacDonald 01-6318402