A beautiful island off the south coast of Scotland has just gone up for sale for less than the price of a three-bedroom house in Dublin.
The tiny uninhabited island of Pladda comes with its own five-bedroom lighthouse and helipad as well as lots of accommodation and other building potentials.
The small teardrop-shaped island which can be seen off the coast of Arran on the ferry from Ardrossan to Campbelltown is located in the Firth of Clyde and is only about 700m long and just over 33 acres in size.
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The €420k sale comes with a former Lighthouse Keeper’s accommodation including two reception rooms, five bedrooms and a bathroom, as well as a separate accommodation including a bedroom, shower room, kitchen and sitting room.
Estate agent, Tom Stewart-Moore of Knight Frank, said that there is also an extensive range of traditional outbuildings with "development potential", as well as a former walled garden extending to around 2.5 acres and even a helipad.
He added: "From the lighthouse and range of associated buildings, there are dramatic far-reaching views looking South to Ailsa Craig, the Kintyre Peninsula, and Northern Ireland on a clear day."
And for those who are worried about having to operate the lighthouse - you won’t have to. It was first installed on the island in 1790, but was fully automated in 1990 and is now remotely monitored from the Northern Lighthouse Boards Headquarters in Edinburgh.
The island is accessible by boat and helicopter, and is just under a mile from the nearby island of Arran with Glasgow easily accessible from Ardrossan.
Mr Stewart-Moore cnfirmed that the accommodation has not been used in recent years and will need to be rennovated.
To the east of the buildings, there are the wonderful extensive former Keeper’s walled gardens, with high stone-built walls, that extend to about 2.5 acres in total.
They previously used to grow fruit and vegetables for the Keepers, but the gardens have now all gone to grass.
The island is an important breeding ground and stop-off point for a variety of migratory seabirds, with over 100 species of birds having been recorded on Pladda in the past.
The island has successful breeding colonies of Artic Terns, a variety of gull species, Turnstones and Shags.
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