The top floor bed chamber with beamed ceiling
Then in 2007, businessmen Tom O’Neill and his partner Patrick Noel Ryan, a building specialist, acquired the shell for €600,000 on the grounds that they would restore Killahara fully. O’Neill would later buy out Ryan’s share.
“The hardest part was getting planning permission,” says Tom. “That took two years. Afterwards, it was much like restoring a regular building, getting a suitable roof on it and drying it out.
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Sign Up The walls are 6ft thick so that took a year or so. We had specialists to apply the hotlime harl of the period for the exterior. This allows the building to breathe.” They used lime wash for the interiors, which also has antiseptic qualities.” They spent €1m all in.