The Glenmore Rivers Sporting Estate, owned by Simply Red posters Mick Hucknall and Chris De Margary, has been put up for sale.
Selling agents for the estate, Savills, have the estate – which has hunting and fishing rights – up for grabs with a €2.6 price tag.
The posters bought the Glenmore Lodge for around €1.3m in 2005 and have been running the Glenmore Rivers Sporting Estate.
The site is described as: “In excess of sixty kilometres of pristine estate-run rivers teem with salmon and trout while the 24,000 acres (10,000 hectares) of shooting ground is home to herds of Red deer.
“Throughout the winter the hillsides and bogs provide unrivalled woodcock and snipe shooting; the numerous lakes give opportunities for outstanding duck shooting and trout fishing.
“Centred around a luxurious lodge which offers the best of Irish hospitality, Glenmore comprises a huge swathe of the Glenfinn Valley, in the shadow of the imposing Blue Stack Mountains.
“In this desolate landscape, close to Europe’s most westerly Atlantic coastline, amongst the peat-bogs and mountain loughs of this pristine land, streams tumble through a myriad of waterfalls and rocky pools, joining to become one of Europe’s finest salmon fisheries, the River Finn; and it is to these nursery streams that up to ten thousand salmon return annually to spawn.”
The newly-built Glenmore Lodge caters for up to eight guests in five bedrooms, three double (two with ensuite bathrooms) and two twin rooms. The two front bedrooms have a view of the river, which is only 80 metres away.
A spokesman for Savills says that the pair have had ‘a lot of fun’ with the estate but have been unable to use it ‘as much as they’ve have liked to’ lately.
De Margary has another property in nearby Welchtown.
