Peculiar pandemic property year ends with €4m+ sale of Gothic Kerry castle

Mystery European buyer of Kenmare's An Culu aims to use it for downtime, and, post Covid-19,  for entertaining business contacts 

Moat by Kerry's waterfront An Culu near Kenmare. Just sold by Savills Cork for €4-4.5 million, the late 1990s built castle has 9,000 sq ft, has its toes in the water of the bay with a floating marina, and even has a swimming pool set in a basement-like grotto

A MAKE-believe Ring of Kerry Gothic castle, built in the last 20 years near Kenmare, has just been bought for more than €4 million, making it one of largest and quirkiest Irish property sales in a pandemic year.

Sold for under its revised €4.5 million guide price through agents Savills’ Cork office, to an unidentified European buyer, is An Culu, a confection of a waterside stone-built castle on 4.5 acres, deep in Coillte forestry, near Templenoe.