Like to live in the old manor?

A GOOD bit of local history comes with Listowel’s Gurtenard House – home to a local TD, Dan Moloney, in the mid-1900s, lived in for a while by a land agent, but also an occasional home in the late 1800s to the Earl and Countess of Listowel.

Now, though, for all its pedigree, past and present, in the north Kerry town, it’s selling for €450,000, via agents, Savills’ Cork and Dublin offices.

That figure isn’t bad at all, considering there’s 7,500 sq ft of space, including four coach houses converted to two-bed apartments, rented and income producing, but, like the house itself, now needing work.