Convent sales becoming a habit

YET another West Cork convent property has come on the market — this time St Mary’s Convent and school buildings in Dunmanway town are being vacated and being made available for redevelopment.

The Dunmanway property comes hot on the heels of the Mercy Convent in Skibbereen, mentioned in these pages last week, and has a far larger landbank on offer.

New to the market with Isobel O'Regan of CB Hamilton Osborne King and TJ Cronin of Irish and European (a past pupil of the second level school) the extensive Dunmanway property has 50,000 sq ft of buildings, on 14 hectares or about 30 acres of land.