Property consultant James Meagher of HT Meagher O'Reilly is not easily bowled over by the reaction to some of the sales campaigns launched by his company. However he admits to being "blown away" by the overseas response to last week's publicity in this newspaper about the planned sale of a
Co Kildare golf course.
Most of the calls came not from Ireland but from around the world, principally Australia, the US, Canada, the Caribbean, New Zealand, Nigeria, the UK and France.
On closer inspection, the planned sale (through the receiver Tom
Kavanagh of Kavanagh Fennell) of Knockanally House and Golf Course, outside Kilcock, does seem to pack quite a lot of property punch for its €800,000 price tag. For that money, a buyer will get a fine 19th century Palladian-style mansion (used as a clubhouse), a full 120-acre golf course, gate lodge and five further houses.
Before the property crash, €800,000 would have merely bought a nice two-bedroom apartment in some of Dublin’s best out-of-town schemes.
While the Knockanally golf course has matured considerably over the past 26 years, and has over 300 members, a new owner might well decide to turn the estate back into a farm and return the 743sq m (8,000 sq ft) mansion to a home.
