Killarney landbank for €520,000

A 13.5-acre landbank on the edge of Killarney in Co Kerry is on the market through agent Daniel Fleming Auctioneers for €520,000.

The land holding, with extensive road frontage to the Killarney bypass and great views over the tourist town, has a mixed-use zoning which permits a wide range of possible uses.

These include offices, education, bank, car park, crèche, community hall, conference centre, cultural/recreational building, data centre, enterprise centre, funeral home, GP practice, hair dressing salon, hotel, place of public worship and pub/restaurant.

The site is surrounded by mature trees and slopes in a southerly direction. It is within walking distance of the Deerpark shopping complex, Department of Justice offices, the local fire station and the proposed new headquarters of the Department of Arts, Sports & Tourism.

The site once formed part of Killarney’s first golf course built some 200 years ago.

Msgr Hugh O'Flaherty, who helped more than 6,500 prisoners escape imprisonment and probable death at the hands of the Nazis in the second World War, learned his golf on the site. His life was celebrated in a recent book, The Vatican Pimpernel by Brian Fleming and in film, Gregory Peck's The Scarlet & The Black.