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The owners of many of Ireland’s castles and grand country houses are offering them as posh holiday rentals, writes EDEL MORGAN

ALL AROUND the country this summer there will be Irish holidaymakers, wealthy tourists and staff from big corporations rattling around Irish castles and ancestral homes, playing lords and ladies of the manor with a butler on standby to cater for their every whim. A growing number of Irish country house owners are letting out their homes. Some are doing it quietly, staying under the radar by using discreet agencies, while others are touting for business on the internet.