Glenlo on track

GALWAY’S five-star Glenlo Abbey hotel and golf course, on 140 acres at Bushy Park — complete with old Orient Express train carriages — is up for sale for joint receivers Aengus Burns and Michael McAteer of Grant Thornton, with offers sought close to €4m.

The Glenlo was Co Galway’s first five-star when first built/converted from an original manor house and abbey back in 1992, and looks over top trout and salmon fishery Lough Corrib, and is just five kilometres from Galway city.

Offered by private treaty and as a going concern, with a significant wedding and function venue, it also houses the unique Pullman restaurant, fashioned from three of the dining carriages of the original Orient Express. One of a trio, the Leona (Car No 208) dates to 1927, carried Winston Churchill to his final resting place at Blaydon Cemetery, and starred in the 1974 Murder on the Orient Express with Sean Connery and Albert Finney as Hercules Poirot in the Sidney Lumet movie.