Residential

Pictured: The houses that saw Mount Juliet swing ahead of the K Club

Property Price Register shows the average Kilkenny golf course property was more than €1 million this year

18 Foxes Covert, a detached four-bedroom house set on just over an acre in Mount Juliet, achieved €1,675 million.

We are lucky in Ireland to have a number of internationally celebrated golf and leisure estates including two world-class ones in Leinster: Mount Juliet in Co Kilkenny and the K Club in Co Kildare.

Mount Juliet dates to the 18th century and its golf course was opened by Tim Mahony in 1991. Straffan House, now home to the K Club, dates from 1832 and Michael Smurfit opened the golf course there also in 1991, shortly ...