American buyer’s trump card aces it for Clare cottage at DNG auction

The sale of a tiny cottage in Co Clare to an American buyer, for 376% of its auction guide, was a top trump for agents DNG at their auction of 32 Irish assets last week.

An American buyer looking for peace and tranquillity in Co Clare paid €81,000 at auction for the much-publicised coastal hideaway at Kernaig, Ballyartney, Labasheeda, on the east coast of Clare overlooking the Shannon estuary: it had a guide of just €17,000, and this helped get much media traction, including here in these pages, on Irish radio and in the US.

And, in the event, the American buyer who shelled out on almost four times the guide was NOT US President Donald Trump: Trump already has his own gold-plated Irish and Clare coastal pad, at Doonbeg.