Youghal’s beach-front Walter Raleigh Hotel carries €2.5m price tag

HAVING last sold for the equivalent of ‘small potatoes,’ and after a costly €1.5m plus rolling refurb, Youghal’s beach-fronting Walter Raleigh Hotel — named for Youghal’s most famous resident Walter Raleigh, of tobacco and potato popularising renown — is back for sale, it is increasingly profitable and now carries a €2.5 million price tag.

Coincidentally, that €2.5m price guide, via agent John Hughes of CBRE, is close to what the historic period era hotel with 110-year trading history previously changed hands for back in 2005, when bought by a US buyer Richard Voke, who’d previously owned Kenamre’s Landsdown Arms.