Want the good life? This cottage is already growing it.

If you’ve ever flirted with the idea of quitting it all, growing your own food and living your best cottagecore life — this one might actually make it doable.

Tucked away just 2.5 miles east of Kealkill, Maulavanig is a traditional farmhouse that sits on around 1.3 acres of seriously lush, private land — and while the house itself could do with a bit of TLC, the real star of the show is what’s happening outside.

Because this place isn’t just a home — it’s basically a ready-made edible garden – yours for €299,000.

Surrounded by sheltered, south-facing grounds and accessed by a newly built road, the property offers total peace and quiet (read: no nosy neighbours), along with a setup that’ll have any aspiring self-sufficiency fan fully sold.

We’re talking an established orchard with apple, pear, plum and cherry trees, plus soft fruits like raspberries, blueberries, gooseberries and currants already doing their thing. There are even nut trees — sweet chestnut and cob nuts.

There are 30-year-old kiwi vines producing fruit, mature Chilean guava, feijoa (aka pineapple guava), honeyberries and jostaberries — which, if nothing else, will make you sound very impressive when people visit.

There’s also a polytunnel frame (just needs new plastic) already planted with jasmine and grape vines, so you’re halfway to year-round growing before you even start.

Beyond the food side of things, the grounds are giving full nature haven energy — native woodland with rowan and hazel, wildflowers throughout, and plenty of bee- and butterfly-friendly plants like roses, buddleia and mock orange. There’s even wild garlic growing under ash trees that could double as your firewood supply.

Inside, the house is simple but solid, with three bedrooms, a living room, kitchen, bathroom, a solid fuel range, private well, and septic tank. It’s the kind of place you can slowly modernise while already enjoying everything around it.

So yes, it needs a bit of work — but with this much already growing, blooming and fruiting outside your door, you’re getting a serious head start on the good life.

If you’ve been looking for a sign to swap supermarket queues for your own garden harvest… this might be it.