Witness to history: Moorepark Gate Lodge for €167,500

Movies could be made from the tales this Lodge could tell, if only walls could talk says Catherine Shanahan

The Lodge, Kilworth, survived an 'accidental' blaze in 1908 of Moorepark Eastate.

SOME of the tales associated with Moore Park Estate are movie material, such as the cast of locals outwitting British soldiers by selling them the same cattle twice.

A history of Kilworth and Moore Park British Army Camps 1896-1922 edited by Kieran Jordan recounts how cattle were driven in the front gate of the estate, sold to the army, driven out the back, and around to the front gate again, where they were re-sold.