Luggala hosts auction spectacular as clock tipped to fetch €500,000

THE Guinness family is to open its doors to the famous Luggala Estate in County Wicklow this week as hundreds of antiques and paintings are auctioned off.

Luggala hosts auction spectacular as clock tipped to fetch €500,000

The estate, famed as a movie backdrop for epics such as Braveheart and King Arthur and renowned as the epicentre of Irish art, will play host to celebrities, collectors and dealers for the sale tomorrow.

The centrepieces of the auction are a monumental early Georgian longcase clock and important paintings by some of Ireland’s most highly-regarded painters, Louis le Brocquy and Jack B Yeats.

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