State's new land purchase at Kerry's Conor Pass may become a national park 

The State is to be the new owner of a Kerry river and lake fishery at the famed Conor Pass previously owned by a British peer, a Luxembourg-based steel industrialist, and several private Irish citizens, including Richard Roche of the Roches department store dynasty.

The State is to be the new owner of a Kerry river and lake fishery at the famed Conor Pass previously owned by a British peer, a Luxembourg-based steel industrialist, and several private Irish citizens, including Richard Roche of the Roches department store dynasty.

The approximately €1.5m acquisition of the ‘source to sea’ Owenmore Fishery on 480 acres, to include 180 acres of water in nine lakes, is very close to concluding, sources confirm.