New future for Heritage

An emblem of the Celtic Tiger era, the Heritage Hotel in Co Laois, goes for sale this week with €5.5m price guide.

Back in the mid-2000s when developed by Portlaoise hoteliers, the Keane family, at a reported cost of up to €100m to include golf course and houses, some individual house sites on the grounds were offered for sale at €500,000 each. Mansions of 5,000 to 7,000 sq ft were selling for between €2.5 million and €2.7 million.

Up to 80 houses in all, many more modest-sized than that, were developed on the original 300 acres of the 2004-built five-star Heritage Hotel at Killenard village, off the M7.