Period Cork home that claims to have rested the body of Michael Collins sold for €2.9m

It is claimed the body of Michael Collins was brought to Annesgrove and rested there before being removed to Shanakiel in Cork City in August 1922, after his assassination at Béal na Bláth

Annesgrove, Aherla Beg, is understood to have been bought by a Cork City businessman.

A period Co Cork home and farm which claims a link to the day of Michael Collins' death 99 years ago, has been sold for €2.9m.

Annesgrove, Aherla Beg, a rundown period home just 20 minutes west of Cork City and Ballincollig, is understood to have been bought by a city businessman who will renovate the property as a private family estate. It has two houses, a quarry, some forestry, and intact but abandoned 19th-century whitewashed farm buildings.