Tour a $16 Million Irish Castle in 360

we're an hour outside of Dublin in the Irish countryside standing in front of Ngoc Trinh castle which is a Georgian country house that's on sale right now for thirteen and a half million euros or about sixteen million dollars now that's a lot of money for any country house anywhere what makes this so valuable is the fact that it's sitting on around a thousand acres that belongs to it so literally everything you can see belongs to this estate there's 20,000 square feet of interior space and let's take a look so here we are in the main entrance hall which is obviously very grand and very ornate you can see the family crests on virtually every wall here and up there and you can also see this pretty lavish ornament now obviously the hall is an initial statement about the house but it's also about entertaining this is the seat of one of the largest land holders in the entire county and also weren't the wealthiest and so he had tons of people over pretty much constantly the entire ground floor is meant for entertaining so we are in the formal library which is much the same as it was when the house was built you can see these walls of leather-bound books which were actually ordered all masked by the owners when they built the house you can tell that no one's ever read them because the pages are still totally uncut so obviously this is a relatively cozy space but it's clearly meant to impress there's this colossal highly ornate mantelpiece beautiful plaster ceiling and then of course these floor-to-ceiling windows with heavy drapery that look out over the houses thousands of acres the thing about a 200 year old home especially a 200 year old home at this scale is that things change I'm standing in what used to be the ballroom now it's an office and now I'm coming into the drawing room which is now being used for puzzles and study the thing is that this is a true country house it's lived in it obviously retains this sense of extreme wealth and grandeur but at the same time it's really what a lot of people's ideas of a kind of old family home looks like this house in its own way is actually quite revolutionary in the sense that it was the first house in Ireland to have running water the first house in Ireland have electricity and the first house in Ireland just have central heating so as we ascend to the second floor where all of the bedrooms are you can also see in this massive domed skylight that lights the house so we are in one of seven principal bedrooms in the house and then there are six other bedrooms for children and staff and so forth this bedroom is notable because it's where Winston Churchill spent several months in the 20s when he was here in Ireland during the Irish Revolution obviously the house needs some work it's definitely not in perfect condition but you're not just paying for the house you're also paying for all of this to our left is a walled garden to our right are these rolling fields and what you can't see is literally hundreds of acres of agriculture several lakes and then forests and a Game Preserve totaling again over 1,100 acres the house is the centrepiece obviously but it's not the only thing that you're really buying

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Keywords: News, bloomberg, 360, Irish Castle, James Tarmy, Pursuits, real estate, luxury, Ireland, UK

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Length: 3min 48sec (228 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 27 2017