A successful succession at Bantry House

Brigitte Shelswell-White helped run her husband’s ancestral home for 40 years. Now she’s enjoying life in the gate lodge

After many years at the helm of one of Ireland’s best-known grand houses, Brigitte Shelswell-White is enjoying the freedom she’s had since handing it over to the next generation. Now, instead of facing into a new year of never-ending renovations and upkeep, she’s looking forward to life in the small house she can lock up and leave whenever she feels like getting away.

Austrian-born Brigitte came to Ireland 40 years ago. She was in her 30s, in a relationship with a painter. They saw an advert for a house in Ballylickey.

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