Posted on 04/12/2020 8:40:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Dating back to the 12th-century and the Norman invasion of Ireland, Portlick Castle, in Athlone, County Westmeath, is on the market for $1,519,660 (€1,400,000), that's about as much as you'd pay for a large semi-detached house in Dublin!
Portlick Castle boasts of ten bedrooms and 12 bathrooms. A lakeside property, nestled on 12 acres of land it really is the stuff of dreams. Of course, there's a little nightmarish stuff too! No house as old as this gets through the centuries without picking up a few ghost stories and Portlick has a few. According to the real estate agent, Stan Bradbury, who listed the property on Daft.ie, for most of its long history, the castle was inhabited by only two families. The story goes that a castle was built on the site by Sir Henry de Leon in the 12th century under the charter of King John.
The four-story tower house that stands there now is thought to have gone up later, in the 15th century, though incorporating the earlier structure.
De Leons (who later went by the more familiar name of Dillon) lived at Portlick until 1696 when they made the mistake of backing the losing side in the Williamite wars.
Portlick Castle is widely reputed to be haunted by a ghost known as the 'Blue Lady'. She has been seen by the owner floating around the staircase area of the great castle and over the years, she has also been spotted by a great many of the guests who have excitedly recorded their experiences in various online forums.
The Blue Lady gets about it seems because Kilkenny Castle, Monkstown Castle in Cork, the Sharon Rectory in Co Donegal, and the Workhouse Museum in Derry all have blue lady ghost sightings attached to them.
(Excerpt) Read more at irishcentral.com ...
Irish lawn jockey?
I don’t know...900 year old house...cold and damp?
$1,519,660
I got the 660 ready to go.
Looks nice. Shame that Ireland turned into a Socialist degenerate & pagan hellhole in recent decades.
Not my style, way too big.
Cold, damp, plumbing doesn’t work, electrical is 100 year old fire hazard, floors are sagging, roof is leaking.
Just guessing!
My Ireland dream home is next to the old Dr Pepper plant in Dublin, TX.
www.dublinbottlingworks.com
Soon to be a Mosque...
Nice enough location.
Upkeep is likely extremely expensive.
For the price, I can get a nice station in Australia with 5,000 acres.
Well, the economy in Ireland is better than the economy in Viet uh no. Um. The economy in Ireland is better than the economy in Braz...uh well...the economy in Ireland is better than the economy in Venezuela.
Nah, I’ll pass.
“nice station in Australia with 5,000 acres.”
Water?
Full of subhuman, raping, murderous, bloodthirsty, troglodyte-from-hell muslims(SPIT!), too.
Steve Guttenberg, Daryl Hannah, Beverly D'Angelo, Liam Neeson and Peter O'Toole.
Northern territories, croc infested river, probably...
In Yuma County, I can get 11 acres with a very nice, 2600 square foot, architect designed house, with a gorgeous view... for $250K....
Western Australia, with 20 acres and access to the ocean, probably 500k, but the natives are hostile...
I like a big house but there isn’t a house on earth worth $1.5M to me.
Twelve bathrooms...sounds like it was a small hotel at some point.
Looks like the original tower is on the left in that picture. The center, and right part built later. According to Wikipedia, the center is a Georgian wing, and the right tower is from the Victorian period. It would be nice to see photos of the inside of the place before they renovated it. I don’t think it’s an historic listed building, so whatever renovations they did, didn’t need prior approval.
One of my favorite flicks!!
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