MUNSTER sales

Although modest outside, Stoneacre, Kenmare was built and finished to an exceptional standard by two interior designers who had made it their professional calling card. Below right: Adare’s 16,500 sq ft Winterwood was Limerick’s big sale at €1.78m

A Kenmare house made a reported €775,000 in an off-market sale. The problem is, no-one seems to know what house it was, or whose. Now, that’s going to annoy a few Kerry people

A modest-enough €300,000 house sale in affluent Killarney “is effectively, the new €1-million barrier,” says one of the town’s main agents, as Killarney’s very best sale was a very fine modern mansion for €1.47m (see pic p3).