200 years Fermoy history at Presentation Convent sale

A landmark building on the southern hill flanking Fermoy town, the 200-year-old Presentation Convent is about to leave the order’s hands, after almost 100 years in their ownership, and having moved over its long life from spirit distillers’ Johnnie Walkers, to spirits of a more religious flavour.

The order acquired the historic and substantial two-storey property in 1922, when it left private family ownership hands, and it’s said to date to about 1820.