To the manor bought

IT mightn’t be Rudolf and the other reindeer frolicking on the lawn — but white deer with a lineage stretching back 400 years does have a touch of magic about it.

A handful of individual house sites are up for sale in the grounds of Mallow Castle, beside ancient forestry, overlooking the Castle, grounds and the river Blackwater all in the heart of the crossroads Munster town.

The herd of white deer at Mallow Castle are said to be descended from two white harts given by Elizabeth I to her god-child Elizabeth Norreys whose family rebuilt an old Desmond castle at Mallow in the late 1500s.