Own an Irish Village for 23M
Purchasing a house is one thing, but The Village at Lyons lets you buy an entire village. The 20-acre estate sits on the banks of the Grand Canal in County Kildare, 30 minutes from Dublin, near Lyons Hill, where the kings of Leinster held court from around 760 AD. Originally a thriving canal-side milling village, the 1820s compound once housed the Jolly Angler Inn, a police barracks, a lock yard, a church school, and a towering four-story watermill run by Joseph P. Shackleton, a relative of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. In the 1990s, Ryanair founder Tony Ryan re-envisioned the entire town, preserving intricate period details throughout the rose-clad stone cottages while adding an award-winning spa, outdoor soaking tubs, a hot tub, a yoga space, and a home theater. The 47 bedrooms are spread across several cottages, surrounded by gardens, orchards, waterways, and a life-size chess set, with world-class stud farms and championship golf courses just beyond the grounds.

