Killavullen, North Cork €2.7 million Size 796 sq m (8,500 sq ft) Bedrooms 4 + 2 Bathrooms 5 BER Exempt IF you were to guess at who’d be a likely buyer for North Cork’s Carrigacunna Castle, the adjacent period home with award-winning indoor swimming pool in an converted stable block, and 50 acres of wooded land, plus walled garden, along with 1,000 metres of fishing rights on the River Blackwater you might hazard along these lines: American? Tick. Irish roots? Tick.
Knowledge and expertise of of property? Tick. Sense of adventure? Tick Wealthy? Tick. That’s the exact profile for sure here at Carrigacunna, sort of mid-way along the luscious River Blackwater between Mallow to the east/upriver side, and Fermoy to the east and downriver.
The only problem is...
. this buyer profile is slightly historic: it perfectly describes the vendor, New York-born John Lundy, who bought Carrigacunna only as recently as 2018 for a recorded €1.85 million, following it up with an investment/mixed use property in Cork city’s historic Huguenot Quarter, on French Church Street.
Quite possibly a romantic at heart, and a young 60 at heart with a young family, Mr Lundy has family roots in Louth, and in Kerry, plus a sister (the ‘menopause medical guru’ Dr Deirdre Lundy) living in Co Wicklow. He fell head over heels too for Carrigacunna with its 600 year old castle keep in a commanding position on a high bluff over the Blackwater, near wooded hills and Killavullen village, linked down the .