Is your Ireland dream home a 12th-century haunted Irish castle

Iris Central ^ | 04/08/2020

[BenLurkin]

My first thought was “The Canterville Ghost”

[redshawk]

Everything in Australia will kill you.
Especially drinking beer with the locals. ...lol.

[doorgunner69]

Got to wonder about the condition of the plumbing and suchlike........

[doorgunner69]

I dunno, that Øbama one might not be in vogue there?

[doorgunner69]

Yabbut, them summers are a bitch. Spent some deployments in Yuma back when.

[Viking2002]

Obama would be sure to have a white lawn jockey, and then claim his great-great grandfather on his mother's side was 1/1024th's Irish. Which makes him about as much an Irishman as I am an Eskimo or Elizabeth Warren is a Cherokee Indian.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Limerick has some nice castles including one owned by a gentleman from Nantucket. I hear he’s quite popular with the local ladies.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

There is a tv show called Escape to the Chateau where a retired military Engineer with some good documentary TV connections and his wife, who has 20 year's experience in the hospitality industry, buy a Chateau in France that's in horrible shape. The series follows how they restore it and turn it into a B&B/Events center. They've done a fabulous job and have inspired others to follow in their footsteps, most of who are going broke as this is written thanks to the lockdown. It's a very entertaining show but my take on it is that unless you have a ton of money and/or tv connections to get you sponsors I would avoid this like the ChiCom Flu.

[kalee]

I’d love to buy it!

[Rockingham]

In that era of more difficult and longer travel and lack of suitable local accommodations, visits by family and friends to a great house usually involved stays of days or weeks. Calling it a small hotel is close to the truth.

[wally_bert]

The last season of Remington Steele.

Not great.

[wny]

it’s not a hellhole.....I was there in October, traveled all over.

[centurion316]

Cold, damp, plumbing doesn’t work, electrical is 100 year old fire hazard, floors are sagging, roof is leaking.

No showers and the garderobe hasn't been cleaned in about 300 years.

[marktwain]

Yabbut, them summers are a bitch. Spent some deployments in Yuma back when.

It is a "dry heat".

It isn't so bad if you have shade.

Air conditioning helps a lot.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin. So, they expect to sell an obsolete structure, probably a maintenance nightmare, AND, you have to share the house. What BS! /jk

[null and void]

It is a "dry heat".

That's what people in hell say.

Reno isn't Hell, but you can see Sparks from here...

[SunkenCiv]

Looks more like 17th-18th c, although there may have been a 12th c Norman castle there at one time, or the squarish tower that shows on other pics may be a greatly altered older structure. /CivOfficiouslyComplainsAboutStuff

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portlick_Castle

possibly interesting sidebar:

Time Team S20-E09 The Lost Castle of Dundrum - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_UrPN13KyM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU_EmUPokZw

[fieldmarshaldj]

You’re talking about the physical looks. I’m talking about the moral, political and spiritual soul.

[mass55th]

Thanks. That was the last season that Time Team aired. I’ve got all the programs, having downloaded them when they aired. I still miss the series.