Bantry House contents auction postponed

Delays in obtaining an Irish property licence have forced the postponement of the sale of contents from Bantry House, due to have taken place on October 21.

In a similar scenario to the Garth Brooks concert cancellations this summer, the Edinburgh auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull said yesterday that it had “&been forced to postpone the sale of the contents of Bantry House, Co Cork, due to delays in obtaining a licence from the Property Services Regulatory Authority (PSRA)”.

The auction had been much anticipated. Many of the works on offer, such as the Gobelins tapestries from Versailles and a coronation portrait of George III, would certainly have been bought at Bantry by an international audience.