Irish castles are going for a song
Americans are snapping up castles in Ireland and there's emerging interest from China and Japan
FIRST-TIME visitors to Humewood Castle in Kiltegan, County Wicklow, can't help it. They simply say, "Wow." It's that big, that stunning - that, well, fairy tale. It's vast and turreted, and the view towards the mountains looks like a Hollywood backdrop.
Humewood, an Irish estate on 427 acres (172.8 ha), roughly a 90-minute drive from Dublin, includes 15 bedrooms, a ballroom, a banqueting hall and a billiards room, among other amenities.
And an American, John Malone, now owns it. In November, the 72-year-old billionaire chairman of the cable and telecom giant Liberty Global got it for a song.
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