Holiday home sells for €480,000

A HOLIDAY home overlooking the internationally renowned Ballybunion Golf Club has fetched €480,000 - well in excess of the guide price.

The three-bedroom, single-storey house, which is across the road from the fifth green on the Old Course, was owned by Cork businessman Pat Herlihy and purchased in trust, at a public auction by a Cork solicitor.

Tom Dillon, of Sherry Fitzgerald’s Listowel office, who conducted the auction, said they were expecting the property to make over €400,000 and felt that location was the key to the price.