Kildare house was the most expensive property sold in Ireland in 2015

A Kildare house turned out to be the most expensive property in the country in 2015 after the property fetched an eye-watering amount on the market. Castlemartin House in Kilcullen, which is the former house of Sir Anthony O'Reilly, was sold for a whopping €26.5 million in February of last year and it is comfortably the highest one-off property sold in the Irish market last year. O'Reilly was a former Irish international rugby player and a renowned businessman in the state as he was CEO of the Heinz company and is largely regarded as Ireland's first billionaire. O'Reilly is currently being pursued by the Irish courts for debts of around €22 million owed to AIB. Another Kildare property that fetched a big fee was Courtown Demense in Kilcock, which was sold for around €10 million to Galway developer Luke Comer.