Residential

Enjoy cottage-style living on Kilkenny’s Mount Juliet estate

This two-bed lodge, part of former staff accommodation at the Thomastown property, is on the market for

Chauffeurs Lodge Mount Juliet Estate has just come to market guiding at €675,000 for the two-storey, two-bedroom residence

Mount Juliet in Thomastown, Co Kilkenny, was built in 1757 by soon-to-be first Earl of Carrick, one Somerset Hamilton Butler, as a working estate with a fine residence for himself and his wife, Lady Juliana Boyle, and their family.

Over the last 266 years or so, the 500-acre country estate has borne a further seven earls and was purchased in 1914 by Sir Dermot McCalmont and his wife Lady Helen, who invested substantial family wealth ...