Cahernane House Hotel in Killarney is a Victorian crown jewel

LIKELY to be chased as a trophy Killarney purchase, as either a hotel with further potential, or as an extraordinary private residence once more, is the 38-bedroomed Victorian timepiece Cahernane House Hotel, on the Muckross Road in Killarney.

Newly up for sale after a market flirtation in 2000, and after some more recent private off-market negotiation in 2015, the period building has roots back to the Herbert family, Earls of Pembroke, who were gifted estates including Muckross in the 17th century having fought on the Yorkist side in the War of the Roses.

An earlier, Queen Anne building here by the Lakes of Killarney and Muckross Road, was demolished in the mid 1800s, and the current, quite grand Cahernane House set in renowned parkland was built in Victoria’s reign, in the 1870s.