Connemara auction has almost 500 lots

The Bank Holiday house contents auction at Costelloe Lodge, Connemara at noon on May 6 by Dolan’s, is now on view.

The 499 lots feature everything from a 1985 Mercedes 500 SL (€800 to €1,200) to art, furniture, paintings, silver, netsuke and even a set of golf clubs (€30 to €40). Costelloe Lodge, at Casla has an interesting history. It was built in the 1890s as a hunting lodge, worked on by the renowned architect Edwin Lutyens, was burned by Republicans in 1922 and rebuilt in 1925 with Lutyens involved.

The most unfortunate survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, J Bruce Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line, retired here with his family. After his death in 1937 his widow remained on in the house.