Shock at death of 'gentleman' businessman, former Cork estate agent and politician Pat Burton

The late Pat Burton co-founded one of Cork city's most successful ever estate agencies, Burton Crowley O'Flynn, later selling it to Sherry FitzGerald

Pat Burton

The unexpected death has occurred of well-known Cork figure Pat Burton, a former very successful auctioneer, farmer, publican, politician, and one-time school teacher.

Best known perhaps across property and valuation circles, and widely valued as a gentleman and ‘old school’ in his approach, the late Pat Burton was a Millstreet native who qualified in UCC and taught agricultural science in Davis College, Mallow, before switching his own focus to business and commerce.