Tommy Barker visits Ilen River bank home of departing banker, AIB’s Chief Executive David Duffy, after its latest €1m-plus drop.

Marfield House sits on 390 acres and has planning for a golf course and hotel.

A West Corkestate that includes the ancestral home of motor manufacturing pioneer Henry Ford, and linked to Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Imperial Call, is being offered for sale for €9m.

Overseas buyers are confidently once again snapping up country homes.

Location: Clonmel

Billionaire John Malone is the largest private landowner in the US. Now, he’s expanding his reach to the land of his forefathers.

Follow your dream with this seven acre Ring of Kerry property, Tommy Barker reports

Golfers might wish their playing handicaps would drop as fast, or at least as steadily, as the asking price on the Blarney Golf Resort in Cork.

WHAT a week. With all the financial to-ing and fro-ing between Brussels and Dublin last week, it’s no wonder bids were slow in coming for a fine grassland farm at Ballyneale, Ballingarry, Co Limerick.

A FORMER part of the big Ballyneale estate lands, near Limerick’s Ballingarry, goes under the auction hammer in mid-November – complete with a carp lake and fishing lodge.

A GOOD bit of local history comes with Listowel’s Gurtenard House – home to a local TD, Dan Moloney, in the mid-1900s, lived in for a while by a land agent, but also an occasional home in the late 1800s to the Earl and Countess of Listowel.

KILKENNY’S Duninga House is sort of a metaphor for where the country is right now: a lot done, more to do, a bit banjaxed, but not without the potential to rise up again.

THE waters and the wild are part and parcel of a stunning property on sale through HOK Country.

LONG arms and deep pockets saw Ballintaggart Stud in Colbinstown, Co Kildare, sell for more than €13 million to property magnate Paul Newman.

THE MOST expensive agricultural property this year has to be Ballintaggart Stud, which hits the summer market with a €13 million price tag.

STANGS HOUSE may as well be in Dublin as far as the new wave of county house buyers is concerned. With broadband connection, business people can easily choose to work from home, says David Ashmore of HOK Country.

HOW appropriate that Bryan and Kerry 'Queen of the Jungle' McFadden are rumoured to being buying Cooleville in Co Tipperary.

ONE of the earlier wave of Continental buyers took over Crohana House a quarter of a century ago, and has spent the intervening period happily living in Ireland and gradually improving this discretely set Benettsbridge, Kilkenny property.

OLD world in style, but thoroughly modern in its creature comforts, is the Kilkenny property Norbridge House.

THATCHER Matt Whelan is hoping to move up the property ladder, and the sale of Sandy Ropes in Wexford's Kilmore Key is step one along the way.

THE man behind Ballynore House in Thomastown, Kilkenny didn't cut corners - in fact he doubled up on them.