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Raise your glass: Offaly four-bed with a fully licenced pub and shop attached
Want a new home and a business venture in one? The Hoppers might be the place for you.
IF YOU’VE BEEN searching for a new home — and a new local pub — you’re in luck.
The Hoppers, a now-vacant Offaly pub which was voted as the county’s best pint of Guinness in 2017, is currently on the market. The sale includes a four-bedroom, one-bathroom home, a small convenience shop, as well as several outbuildings on an acre of land in the centre of Walsh Island Village.
The pub is fully fitted and equipped with a full seven-day licence to serve. There is a separate bar, lounge and games room, as well as a beer cooler room. The pub has a pot-belly stove as well as oil-fired central heating for extra cosiness.
As for the live-in accommodation, the standalone property measures 160 square meters and sits adjacent to a school.
There is development potential here, as well as large outbuildings that are suitable for a variety of uses, including car or boat storage.
The home has both oil and solid fuel heating, and has its own entrance separate from the pub and the shop. Two of the bedrooms are on the ground floor, and two are on the first floor, both of which have walk-in wardrobes.
Finally, there is additional income potential from the 74 square meter shop unit attached to the pub as well.
Walsh Island village is just north of Portarlington in Co Laois, with both the M7 and the M6 motorways offering links to Dublin.
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