Laurene Fitzpatrick gave this Killiney, Co Dublin, abode a sustainable upgrade inside and outside — it is now on the market for €525,000 Laurene Fitzpatrick in the garden. Photo: Bryan Meade Exterior of the circa 440sq ft granite built cottage on Glenalua Road The living room at Stone Cottage Laurene Fitzpatrick drew this map of the Boyne. Photo: Bryan Meade One of the bedrooms — the second is currently in use as a home office The living room has stripped-back stone walls and is hung with a number of Fitzpatrick’s own paintings Entrance hallway The garden 'I realigned the chimney and I use a very sustainable source of kiln-dried, low moisture timber in the stove,' says Laurene Fitzpatrick Stone Cottage, 6A Glenalua Road, Killiney, Co Dublin Asking price: €525,000 Agent: Sherry FitzGerald Dalkey (01) 275 1000 Laurene Fitzpatrick lives a few paces away from U2’s Bono but she is not too fussed about that.
For her, the real celebrities in the neighbourhood are the creatures of the air and the beasts of the earth. Fitzpatrick lives in a circa 440sq ft granite built cottage on Glenalua Road, just paces away from the rock star’s rather more capacious Temple Hill home. Since moving there around a decade ago, she has turned the barren rock garden at the tiny cottage into a rock-star pad for insects and birds, chipping away at the granite and introducing top soil on which to grow flowers and vegetables.
Laurene Fitzpatrick drew this map of the Boyne. Photo: Bryan Meade �.