We happened to notice while wandering around Glin on Saturday waiting for the cafe to open for breakfast (10am!) that Glin castle had an open day on Sunday. We went along, and found it very interesting. The castle is really a large house, that until recently was home to the last Knight of Glin, who died a few years ago.
The Glin Development Association guides were really entertaining and informative, and we got a good sense of the history of the house and gardens. It sounds like there were some real characters in the house’s past, especially Margaret Blennerhasset who was the only female member of the Limerick Hellfire Club. You can read more about the castle here, as otherwise I’d just be badly re-hashing what we’d been told.
Anyway, it’s up for sale if you’ve got a spare €6.5m. The walled garden is really decent, but I think you’d be able to haggle them down to €6m if you pushed it.