{"id":159955,"date":"2025-11-26T03:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/159955\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T03:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:28:08","slug":"new-lease-of-life-for-landmark-building-on-the-banks-of-the-river-shannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/159955\/","title":{"rendered":"New lease of life for landmark building on the banks of the River Shannon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A LANDMARK building at the Limerick-Clare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/230\/community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">border<\/a> is to be sold below its asking price of \u20ac150,000.<br \/>The Toll House sits adjacent to Athlunkard Bridge in Corbally, where the Shannon splits the Treaty and the Banner counties.<br \/>Long out of use, the Toll House dates back to the early 19th century.<br \/>It would be well-known to people who walk the Shannon Fields or Red Path in Corbally.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/education\/1948904\/university-of-limerick-student-wins-prestigious-tax-scholarship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">University of Limerick student wins prestigious tax scholarship<\/a><br \/>The building was placed on the derelict sites register in August 2023, which paved the way for Limerick City and County Council to buy the property on a compulsory basis the following year.<br \/>Auctioneers were initially seeking \u20ac150,000 for the property.<br \/>But following a bidding process involving four potential buyers, an offer of \u20ac100,000 was accepted.<br \/>The successful bidders, who are cash buyers, are seeking to refurbish the property and rent it out.<br \/>Councillors noted the sale this month, and it\u2019s expected to be rubber-stamped in January.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A LANDMARK building at the Limerick-Clare border is to be sold below its asking price of \u20ac150,000.The Toll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77986,61,60,44,63219,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-159955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-corbally","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-limerick-city","12":"tag-river-shannon","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}