{"id":541931,"date":"2026-07-10T01:13:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/541931\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T01:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:13:20","slug":"prestigious-manor-where-rte-star-lived-up-for-sale-for-e10m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/541931\/","title":{"rendered":"Prestigious manor where RT\u00c9 star lived up for sale for \u20ac10m"},"content":{"rendered":"

An iconic Irish hotel that was once the home of TV presenter Eibhl\u00edn N\u00ed Chonghaile has gone up for sale.<\/p>\n

The renowned Mount Falcon hotel is up for sale, 24 years after it was first bought by the Maloney family. Brothers Alan, Mike and Barry Maloney previously bought it in 2002 for \u20ac3.5M.<\/p>\n

Mount Falcon has hosted the likes of film stars Vivien Leigh and Peter Sellers during their Hollywood heyday. In more recent years, the hotel has been visited by US president\u00a0Joe Biden, golfers\u00a0Tiger Woods\u00a0and Nick Faldo, and actors\u00a0Bill Murray, Jon Hamm,\u00a0Emily Blunt\u00a0and\u00a0Jamie Dornan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"MountMount Falcon Bedroom. Pic: Mountfalcon.com<\/p>\n

But more recently it was home to former RT\u00c9 star Eibhl\u00edn N\u00ed Chonghaile, who married Alan in October 2022 and hosted their lavish wedding on the stunning estate.<\/p>\n

But after just three years of marriage and 13 years together, the presenter previously confirmed to EVOKE in January that they had split up<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now the four-star hotel, located in Mayo’s Moy Valley, just 7km away from Ballina, is up for sale on behalf of the hotelier family for \u20ac10M.<\/p>\n

Mount Falcon boasts 32 guest bedrooms in the principal Manor House along with 45 guest lodges distributed across three settings \u2013 The Woodlands, The Courtyard, and the Lakeside \u2013 within the wider estate.<\/p>\n

\"MountMount Falcon. Pic: Mountfalcon.com<\/p>\n

The hotel owns 17 of these lodges and, together with some of the lodges they lease, there is additional accommodation for a further 118 guests.<\/p>\n

Susan Joyce of CBRE\u2019s hotels division, said: ‘Truly complete estate assets of the calibre of Mount Falcon are rare in the Irish hospitality investment market.<\/p>\n

‘The estate\u2019s freehold tenure and its considerable development potential \u2013 including scope for additional bedrooms, further lodges and enlarged banqueting facilities, subject to planning consent \u2013 represent compelling upside for the incoming purchaser.<\/p>\n

‘The estate\u2019s salmon fishery alone is unrivalled in the Irish hotel market, and its setting on the Wild Atlantic Way make this an offering that will attract serious interest from both domestic and international investors.’<\/p>\n

\"MountMount Falcon. Pic: Mountfalcon.com<\/p>\n

The Manor House, or Hollywood House as it was known originally, was designed in 1872 by James Franklin Fuller, the architect behind Ashford Castle, Kylemore Abbey and Farmleigh House, and was completed in 1876. <\/p>\n

The hotel underwent a multimillion-euro restoration over three years after it was bought by the Maloney brothers and opened for business as a luxury country-house hotel in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An iconic Irish hotel that was once the home of TV presenter Eibhl\u00edn N\u00ed Chonghaile has gone up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-541931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541931","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=541931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}