A British life peer who once owned and later rented one of Ireland s finest Palladian mansions has not established any legal right to occupy the property, the Court of Appeal (CoA) has ruled.
Lord George Magan (74) was not entitled to relief against forfeiture of Castletown Cox House, in Kilkenny, under landlord and tenant legislation, the CoA also found.
Lord Magan had claimed Castletown was his secondary residence and his main home is in Cambridge Place, Kensington, London.
He claimed a trust that he originally set up to manage the house and property had illegally forcibly entered the property and changed the locks in May 2018.