Regal estate likely to fetch €2.25m

There seems to have been a little bit of skulduggery by Sir Edward Tierney in regard to the estate of his employer and landlond, the Earl of Egmont.

A solicitor who worked for the Perceval farmily, the Earls of Egmont, Tierney was a baronet and agent, and legal adviser to the 5th Earl of Egmont. The Earl left much of his estate to Tierney, but this was later challenged by the 6th Earl, who succeeded in wrested back his property from Tierney’s beneficiaries, for a large sum of money, in an out-of-court settlement.

One of the Tierney estates, (and there were many, let out to other ‘middling sorts’ of people in North Cork), included Park House, a Georgian dwelling that the Tierney family trolled before the Famine and which, surprisingly, escaped the torch in 1921 and has been continually lived-in since.