Address : 20 Herbert Park, Donnybrook, Dublin 4 Price : €4,000,000 Agent : Sherry FitzGerald
At the Donnybrook end of Herbert Park, houses of the calibre of number 20 don’t appear on the market very often. Not only is this six-bedroom semidetached home full of original features, it comes with a stellar historical pedigree as the former home of John A Costello, who served as taoiseach from 1948 to 1951 and from 1954 to 1957.
Costello is best known for repealing the External Relations Act and declaring Ireland a republic in 1949, severing its ties to the Commonwealth.
The sense of history is palpable in this fine Edwardian home built by G&T Crampton in 1914 and bought by Costello, then a barrister, in 1919.
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