How Glandore’s Violet Garden got the Green and Vernon touch — on the QT

Green Property’s Stephen Vernon has swooped on one of West Cork’s loveliest spots, he tells Tommy Barker.

TOP Irish and International property magnate Stephen Vernon of Green Property has made a West Cork swoop — but for his own pleasure.

Although the Green Property Portfolio company, which he chairs, has £2 billion in assets in Ireland and the UK (plus he has assembled a €700m war-chest in Green REIT plc investment trust), he’s just paid a more ‘modest’ €1.7m for a modernist, cliff-hugging private home in Glandore — built ten years ago by Dublin-born owner/architect Mary Donohoe, who has lived in New York, London, Dublin — and more recently, Glandore.