Huge interest in historic house and 70 acres

IT’S starting to get very interesting in the Lee Valley at the moment, where land ownership pattern is changing and where, it begs the question — what happens next?

Publicly launched on the market in April was Kitsborough House, at Carrigrohane, Co Cork, a 70-acre estate owned by the late judge Sean O’Leary, and now being sold by his wife, Mary, because the family have all grown up and the property is too large to manage.

The house is a 1990s replacement for an earlier, probably Queen Anne dwelling, which belonged to the O’Riordan family, who were related to the high profile Bishop of Cork, Cornelius Lucey, on his mother’s side.