Downton Abbey style estate in South Tipperary on sale for €8m

With more than 1,200 acres of land in total and an impressive Georgian pile in the middle of it, Kilcooley Estate in South Tipperary is a property of multiple aspects which will attract a lot of very different interested parties.

It was almost inevitable, then, that the decision would be taken to sell the property in two separate lots to address the two separate market segments that would be interested in this enormous holding.

Some 838 of the 1,263 acres are composed of mature forestry land. At the moment, this is being managed by a forestry management company, according to Roseanne de Vere Hunt of Sherry Fitzgerald Country Homes, who are selling the property jointly with Brian Carroll of Sherry Fitzgerald Carroll in Dundalk.