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Thu 03 Mar 2010€1.7m Kilkenny home by the Nore a good catch
A period-style house built just 20 years ago on 26 acres by the River Nore comes with fishing rights worth €400,000, writes MICHAEL PARSONS
AT FIRST glance, Kilfamma House looks like one of those sporting lodges to which Regency bucks escaped for a spot of huntin’, shootin’ and fishin’ when tired of the (rather trying) company of Jane Austen heroines. This area of Co Kilkenny was once renowned for its merry, claret-lubricated hunting parties – the early 19th century equivalent of lager-fuelled stag weekends. Plus ça change.
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