{"id":227174,"date":"2026-01-04T17:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227174\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T17:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:09:09","slug":"texas-oil-billionaire-gets-nod-to-build-private-whiskey-distillery-on-grounds-of-kilkenny-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227174\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas oil billionaire gets nod to build private whiskey distillery on grounds of Kilkenny estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Palladian Castletown Cox mansion, one of Ireland\u2019s finest, was bought by Kelcy Warren (pictured) for \u20ac12.6m in 2018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ec9b6ef2-1694-45d1-ab4b-aae765ba5e63.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Palladian Castletown Cox mansion, one of Ireland\u2019s finest, was bought by Kelcy Warren (pictured) for \u20ac12.6m in 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Texan oil billionaire\u2019s plans to build a private whiskey distillery at his historic estate in Co Kilkenny took a significant step forward after council planners approved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Last August, Kelcy Warren, chairman and largest shareholder of Energy Transfer, a US gas and oil pipeline firm valued at more than $56.5bn (\u20ac48bn), submitted plans to develop a distillery on the grounds of Castletown Cox Estate in Kilkenny. The Palladian mansion, one of Ireland\u2019s finest, was bought by Warren for \u20ac12.6m in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Palladian Castletown Cox mansion, one of Ireland\u2019s finest, was bought by Kelcy Warren (pictured) for \u20ac12.6m in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,5913],"class_list":["post-227174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sean-pollock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227174","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=227174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}