Mayo doctor to provide legal charge over 11-bedroom mansion

A bank is entitled to an order requiring a doctor to provide a legal charge over his and his wife’s 11-bedroom home , the High Court has ruled.

Dr Gerald Stephens and Mary Anne Stephens built Thornhill Manor, Hollymount, Co Mayo, in 1995.

Mr Justice Paul Gilligan ruled ACC is entitled to an order requiring Dr Stephens to specifically perform an undertaking that Thornhill would be put up as security for a €400,000 loan given to the couple when they decided to sell the house and build another home on adjacent land they had acquired.