Palatial home to tempt a foreign buyer

It’s not often a local property graces the pages of Country Life magazine, where Garryhankard House, with 39 acres near Upton, Co Cork, is featured, with a €4.5m price tag.

In the same manner that Renaissance Italian princes glorified their residences, while creating the milieu for artists and artisans to thrive, so too did the late owner of this property, Cork-based solicitor James G O’Mahony.

Mr O’Mahony died in 2006, and is believed to have achieved great wealth through property development. He famously sold land near the Bishopstown Roundabout to farmer/developer John Barry for €30m, having purchased the land without planning for a reputed €3m.