Where eagles Adare: Ryders to the tee to the fore at €2.595m Adare mini-manor

Seven bed Oak Lodge will be party central come Ryder Cup 2027 in Adare Manor

Fore? Adare Manor Demesne's No 9 is a 4,700 sq ft home in this niche Munster manorial millionaires' row: Eileen Neville of Lisney Sotheby's International  Realty guides at €2.595m

The Demesne, Adare Manor, Limerick
€2.595m
Size	447 sq m (4,800 sq ft)
Bedrooms	7
Bathrooms	4
BER	B3

OWNERS of the c 20 homes in Limerick’s Adare Manor Demesne hardly need bragging rights — these one-offs in the grounds of Adare Manor are multi -million euro beasts any time of the day, or any day of the year.

19 serviced sites were sold for large one-offs 25 years ago by previous Adare Manor owner Tom Kane

Did they really need the hoopla of the Ryder Cup in 2027 — the US vs European cup challenge’s centenary year — on their threshold as well?

Hoopla: JP McManus, owner of Adare Manor; Patrick O’Donovan T.D., Minister for Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport; and Guy Kinnings, Chief Executive of the European Tour Group. Pic: Ryder Cup Europe.

In advance of the 2027 Ryder Cup, millions of euro (and, dollars?) are being splashed around Adare: €150m is being spent along on the village’s badly needed bypass; the Irish Government is contributing tens of millions of euro to the prestige event (Adare was agreed back in 2019 for 2026, but covid knocked it on a year to ’27). And, Adare Manor’s proud owner JP McManus is already quids-down on spends to the tune of c €80m to buy and renovate the 19th century manor, now centrepiece of a golf resort with Michelin-starred restaurant, the Oak Room and the Ryder Cup on the way.

Main player: Adare Manor 

All of this makes the €2.595m asking price on Oak Lodge, aka 9 The Demesne Adare Manor seem almost reachable: it’s listed this week as the 2025 Ryder Cup in the biennial series kicks off in New York, with Munster-based estate agent Eileen Neville of Lisney Sotheby’s International Realty.

Lodge your interest for No 9, aka Oak Lodge

Ms Neville describes the 447 sq m seven-bed (two en suite) home on a crescent-shaped site as being in a beautiful Arts and Crafts style, with covered porch entrance, oak floored interiors with curved hall walls, several offices, stepped open plan kitchen/living room, library, drawing room and lofted adjacent garage.

“It’s already attracted strong interest, particularly from the US buyers with the upcoming 2027 Ryder Cup at Adare Manor adding to its international appeal,” adds Lisney Sotheby IR’s Ms Neville.

Tees up

It appears to be ‘virtually staged’ for sale purposes, and gets a B3 BER, and follows on the arrival for sale in early 2024 of the very well finished No 5, a 6,700 sq ft six bed which had a €2.25m AMV and shows on the Price Register selling at €2.3 million.

Two years prior, No 2, Winterwood, sold for €2.937m in ’22 (it had a value put on it in the Tiger Times in excess of €10m), and a handful of other Demense homes have resold in the €1m to €2m bracket.

Celtic Tiger Woods: Winterwood, pictured in 2012

All 19/20 here are one-offs, built on services sites in the 2000s offered by Adare Manor’s previous owner, US-born Tom Kane at site prices from €650,000 to €1.5m.

Winterwood, in 2012

VERDICT: Some calculations says the 2027 Ryder Cup with bring an economic benefit of €150m or more to the region. What will it bring the vendor of No 9, and to the rents it can command for a week or two come September 2027?