Best way to heat a house with no gas supply

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Hi, I've inherited a cottage in rural Ireland that has mains electricity but not gas.
It currently has storage heaters which I've found to be really poor in the past. I dont know if you can have an oil tank the way rural England does.

What's going to be the best way to heat it?
I was thinking underfloor heating which I could control from an app (will be visiting it not living there) but realise I know absolutely thing about electric boilers etc

Any advice would be great please

Electric underfloor heating is painfully expensive to run. You don’t need a boiler for it though it’s just a little control panel (the size of a plug socket) on the wall.

Depending on your budget, and the available roof size, you could install an air source heat pump, solar array, and batteries. If you couple this with decent insulation, and wet underfloor heating, you would have a constant temperature, and hot water at pretty much zero ongoing cost. It would take a while to pay back, but if you are playing a long game, that's what I'd do.

Make sure you research your installer though, there are many who know little and do a shit job of the install.

I'm in rural Northern Ireland and have a gas tank. I use Calor Gas which I believe is also available in ROI.

I'm in the UK but I have no gas.
I would recommend a combination of things. Relying on electricity alone is not only expensive but you are vulnerable when it comes to power cuts.
We have traditional central heating with an oil boiler, solar panels and batteries, a multi fuel stove with back boiler and a water tank with immersion heater.
I'm not well up on ashp but if you go down that route consider keeping a hot water tank rather than a combi boiler because you can then heat water with solar or stove.

We have a house on the west coast of Ireland, it is heated by oil though an outside boiler. We also have a small Calor gas bottle for the hob. Always need two forms of power. We get lots of power cuts after the storms and at least we can always boil water and heat food on the hob. We also have an open fire in the living room to provide heat. We would love to have solar etc, but the storms would rip the panels off the roof.

I dont know if you can have an oil tank the way rural England does.

You can.