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Thu 09 Sep 2010Kildare demesne deal sparks interest from abroad
LAST week, 90-year-old Co Kildare farmer Richard Robinsonoffered to stump up part of the cost of restoring his vast Palladian-style home to anyone prepared to buy it.
The unusual gesture has triggered an exceptional level of interest from the United States, Britain and Ireland in the 18th century pile, Newberry Hall Demesne, near Carbury, Co Kildare, which is to be sold exactly 100 years after Mr Robinson’s father bought it.
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