West Cork hospitality venues coming, going, gone

Tommy Barker reports on the sale of Schull's Grove House for c €1m, as Baltimore's Beacon Guesthouse comes for sale for €495k... and as a multi-million euro sale is in the wings 

A file photo of Katarina Runske and her son Nico with Junior at Grove House, Schull, Co Cork. Picture: Denis Scannell

ONE down, for close to €1m;  one to go for half that sum is freshly up for sale for post-Covid-19 trade; and one big multi-million euro sales result is imminent this month, in terms of West Cork hospitality venues’ performance on the property market as 2021 kicks off.

Just sold is Grove House, on the uber-exclusive Colla Road in West Cork’s Schull, a highly regarded Victorian-era guesthouse and acclaimed restaurant, run for the past 15 years by the engaging Swede, chef, musician, and patron of the arts Katarina Runske and which had been for sale with a €1m price guide.