US billionaire James Berwind boats in for €4.5m Kinsale house buy

Swift sale agreed on former UCC president Prof Gerry Wrixon's Sandycove waterfront Georgian home linked to US coal heir James Berwind who visited Kinsale in his €80m superyacht

Superyacht Scout berthed at The Dock, Castlepark, Kinsale in June 2023 . The 210' €80m vessel is owned by James Berwind

A US billionaire James Berwind who berthed his €80 million superyacht Scout in Kinsale harbour last month has been linked locally to the €4.5m+ swoop on a Georgian waterfront property, Sprayfield, near the Munster property hotspot, and which has just disappeared off property websites after getting a May launch.

A number of local sources have linked the ‘sale agreed’ of Sprayfield – owned by former UCC president Gerry Wrixon and his wife Marcia - to James Berwind who’s a fifth generation heir to a family fortune made in coal mining in the US in the 1880s, with the Berwind family now primarily involved in investment management, and real estate.