West Cork cottage used in Rose Dugdale's 1974 art heist fetches almost €1m

It is the remote hideaway spot where a pregnant British heiress and IRA collaborator Rose Dugdale, and her then-partner Eddie Gallagher, hid out for 10 days surrounded by the stolen Beit art haul of 19 works from Russborough House that included works by Goya, Gainsborough, Hals, Reubens Vermeer, Velázquez and Vermeer

The three-bed cottage, with stone outbuildings, and 22 acres of rough farmland right on the edge of the Atlantic ocean at Reenogreena, Glandore.

A cliffhanger cottage that was Rose Dugdale’s West Cork hideaway bolthole for the stolen Beit art collection 50 years ago — a haul worth over €100m in today’s terms — has just been sold for close to €1m.

Just changed hands to US-based buyers is a three-bed cottage, some stone outbuildings, and 22 acres of rough farmland right on the edge of the Atlantic ocean at Reenogreena, Glandore.