Share rural life at our old farmhouse in East Cork, Ireland

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  Description

  A family of five living in an old farm house in East Cork Ireland. We offer a mobile and caravan on site in the yard and paid hours for specific help with carpentry to build a lean to and clearing woods.
  
  Adjacent to Ballycotton Fishing village and 5km from Ballymaloe House Hotel and Cookery School beside Shanagarry. Beautiful rural setting with Cloyne village a walking distance of 2km away. Midleton town 8km away is closest hub with famous whiskey distillery, farmers market and train links to Cork City and all it's culture and urban amenities.
  Cork city is 15 mins from Midelton by train, Airport is 30 mins drive away. The renovation project was done in a slow self build conservation manners.
  
  As per the guidelines for work aways, we offer €15/20 an hour for time worked on the specific business work and other related project.
  
  The farmhouse is over two hundred years old and is set on 13 acres of woodland, we have planted a biodiversity birdseed cover in the northern flower field and have a large hay field in the south filed facing a lower wetland meadows.
  
  On site is a wood cabin with electricity and a woodburning stove, a sauna, a 2 bed mobile home with water and gas cooking facilities, a caravan and various working sheds and shipping containers.
  
  We have plans and need help to make a walking route through the woods, and work on the wooden lean too ; experienced workers required.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Jardinage d'entretien

  Projets DIY créatifs

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison

  Petits travaux d'entretien
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Vie en van

  

  Politique/justice sociale

  

  Musique

  

  Art et design

  

  Architecture

  

  Animaux

  

  Montagne

  

  Yoga / bien-être

  

  Voile / bateau

  

  Films et télé

  

  Dev. durable

  

  Événements/vie sociale

  

  Culture

  

  Menuiserie

  

  Dessin et peinture

  

  Cuisine et alimentation

  

  Jardinage

  

  Soin des plantes

  

  Bricolage / artisanat

  

  Plage

  

  Nature

  

  Sports nautiques

  

  Randonnée

  

  Cyclisme
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  Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

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  Qu'est-ce que c'est ?
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  Workdays will be involved in carpentry project for September and woodland maintenance and setting up test bed crops for spring flowers. Cork is a hub of excellent food, local artisan makers, pottery makers, carpenter. The beach's of Ballybranigan and Ballycroneen are walking cycling distance from the house.

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  Projets impliquant des enfants

  Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.

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  L’hôte offre un salaire correspondant au salaire minimum

  Cet hôte offre l'hébergement et une rémunération.

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  Aide

  Esther is a landscape architect and designer and works on site specific landscape sculptures. Ed a stone mason and makes bespoke furniture.
  
  We need help in land and woodland maintenance and would like motivated workers

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  Langues parlées

  Anglais: Courant

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  Hébergement

  A double bed mobile home and a single bed in the same mobile home with full kitchen dining living combo. Gas hot water. Shower bathroom. Full electrics, well water, toilet facilities. A wooden studio cabin with double sofa bed and stove. 8mx4m
  A caravan with fixed double bed. Shared food preparation in mobile. Garden bbq set up with large table. We have a sauna on site and free standing 5m pool, Salads and winter veg available from garden. Large sheltered inner garden .

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  Autres infos...

  We are living in the main house
  All our boys attend the school of music so any musical visitors who can help with practice are welcome. Bassoon. Trombone and double bass. Previously piano.
  
  We have another stone building we will begin to renovate in 2028 and plan to build a natural swimming pool beside the sauna in the inner garden.
  
  The house has streams, ditches and rivers running all through the woods fields and property. An edible salad watercress grows in the lower marshy field.
  
  It's a magical setting on 13 acres, we would love for anyone with like minded ethos to come share our journey.

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  Informations complémentaires

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    Accès Internet

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    Accès Internet limité

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    Nous avons des animaux

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    Nous sommes fumeurs

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    Familles bienvenues

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  Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

  Internet is good.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Plus de 2

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  Mes animaux

  mid night (4 ans)

  Mid night arrived the same week as bread and is a very scardy cat and lives outside.

  Bread (4 ans)

  Very friendly grey tabby cat; it was a stray about 8 months old. It's old family has got new cats so we kept him

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