A CELEBRITY hunting for a new home in Ireland is set to have her potential neighbours all shook up.

According to reports Elvis Presley’s daughter Lisa Marie, aged 38, and a number of her friends have viewed Cork’s historic Mallow Castle which is on sale for £6.5million. They have also visited a nearby stud farm with the same asking price in the past few days.

North Cork has become a mecca for celebrities seeking the quiet life. Ironically Lisa Marie’s former husband, pop prince Michael Jackson, spent several weeks just down the road at Blackwater Castle in Castletownroche which he used as a base last June for mansion-hunting forays.

The four-times married Lisa Marie — whose previous husbands include the actor Nicolas Cage — visited Waterloo Stud Farm, a 60acre site with an indoor jumping arena, which is near the racecourse in Mallow.

She also went to Clonmel where she looked over the famous Knocklofty House — formerly owned by Lord Donoughmore — which has an asking price of £13million, and the nearby Marfield House.

Lisa Marie, Elvis and Priscilla Beaulieu Presley’s only child, inherited the King’s multi-million dollar estate eight years ago.

In August 2005 she sold 85 per cent of the estate’s business holdings to CKX Inc, excluding Graceland itself and the property within it. On January 22 last year Presley married guitarist and music producer Michael Lockwood in Kyoto, Japan.

She met Lockwood through her first husband Danny Keough and Keough served as best man at the couple’s wedding.

Lockwood didn’t come with her on the house-hunting trip but she was accompanied by a number of German friends. Liam Lynch managing director of auctioneers Lynch & Company in Cork confirmed he took Lisa Marie to see a number of sites but declined to say what her intentions are.

Mr Lynch is no stranger to dealing with celebrities. In 1999 he sold the former home of Ireland’s first president Douglas Hyde to dancer Michael Flatley for £3million.

Since then Flatley has invested more than £20million in Castlehyde House near Fermoy.

That sound awesome !!
http://www.tourismresources.ie/cht/mallow.htm

Go Lisa! You can't beat the Irish countryside. I'm just glad she's looking at places on the West coast. Clare is beautiful and Lisa should check out some places around Galway and Killarney as well before settling down in Cork. I am planning on going over in a little while as well to do some house shopping, obviously I will not be looking at the same places as Lisa b/c of my limited income in comparision haha.

YEY Lisa could be living closer to me

ahm,

Thank you for posting!!

happy for her, she has some great taste thanks for posting

im happy 4 her!! really i am, i just dont want her to move to another country!! gosh!! thats far!!! lol

I'm a realtor in Texas and I think she should let me show her some really nice properties in TEXAS!!! She would so love Texas!!

Thanks for sharing. Wow, that's in Europe...cool.

Presley ‘not in bidding’ for Mallow Castle

Thursday January 25th 2007
By Louise McCarthy


SPECULATION that Elvis Presley’s daughter, Lisa Marie, could become the new owner of Mallow Castle was dismissed this week by a local auctioneer.

Cork city based auctioneer Liam Lynch, of Liam Lynch & Co, was reported to have brought Lisa Marie Presley to view Mallow Castle more than a week ago, but he could not confirm if she has shown any real interest in purchasing the castle or not. The guide price for the castle is in the region of €10 million.

However, a Doneraile based auctioneer refuted the possibility of the star buying the castle. “I know that that there is hype that she is interested in it, but I know that she is not,” said Aidan Foley, auctioneer.

Mr Foley told The Corkman that an internationally renowned hotel group, who are not yet established in Ireland, have considered the purchase of the castle.

In addition, Michael O’Donovan of SherryFitzgerald O’Donovan stated that although that they are not actively speaking to any definite buyers at the moment they are in contact with an interested party who expressed a desire to develop a hotel.

It is thought that there will be an auction later in the year at the castle, selling fine art and rare books.

Meanwhile, local Cllr Noel O’Connor has renewed his campaign to push for Cork County Council to purchase the castle.


“Subsequent to the recent news that Lisa Marie Presley was interested in buying the castle I spoke to the [council] management about the purchase of the castle. It seems that their decision still seems to be that the price is out of range,” said Cllr O’Connor. “I intend to talk to the auctioneers at SherryFitzgeralds this week and see if there is negotiating possibility with the council and the vendor.”

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i want LMP to be happy,but i would be soooo sad if she left the USA!!!!

hmm, buying a home in Ireland too, would bring her closer to her EuropeAn fans, as long as she doesn't move there all together, I'm happy for YOU ALL!!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!

I have to say that I feel the same way LJ & smokey.