Medieval History
Meet Helen Cassidy ? Castle seller
Ireland is home to dozens of medieval castles which are in private hands, and in recent years many entrepreneurs have been looking to buy these properties so they can restore them and turn them into hotels or historic homes. If they are interested in buying, it is most likely they will want to contact Helen Cassidy
Cassidy, a real-estate agent and auctioneer, operates out of the town of Clonbur in the west of Ireland, and has been selling all kinds of properties. She notes, ?I grapple with a wide variety of rather gripping, glamorous properties, from Castles in varying states of repair, to huge Islands accessable only by boat, chopper and waders, to pretty Western Cottages and lakeshore abbodes?.
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