Luxury Waterford Castle resort yours for €4.5m

Waterford Castle, a hotel and resort on an island in the River Suir two miles from Waterford City, has just been publicly placed on the international market guiding over €4.5m.

Reached by a short ferry ride, the romantic island idyll has a grounded business base that includes a four-star 20-bed castle hotel with an 800-year history, 43 five-star guest lodges, over 300 acres of land with grazing Sika deer, and a Des Smyth-designed golf course (with 430 members) on 200 acres which opened in 1992.

Anticipated to come to market before year’s end, the property mix and island is getting launched now with Marcus Magnier of Colliers International guiding €4.5m-plus. He was also involved in last year’s sale of the Fota Island Resort and golf club in Cork harbour, for a reported €20m. That resort offer had over 200 international inquiries and sold to Cork-based Chinese family the Kangs who also bought and reopened Cork’s Kingsley Hotel.