Parochial properties make fine homes for those with the money, time or vision
It’s not just priest numbers that are declining, so too are congregations. Few churches have closed, but the trickle of parochial houses for sale is steady.
Inside, its owners have not done much to stage it for sale with no concessions made for any would-be buyers put off by its religious heritage. Holy pictures, crucifixes and statues remain in abundance. The sale is managed by Padraic Murtagh of James L Murtagh and Associates who has sale-agreed two parochial houses in Meath this summer. One was a three-bay, two-storey-over-basement parochial house in Kildalkey dating from 1840 priced at €450,000. The sale was agreed for “significantly more”, he says. The other is a five-bed near Navan also dating from that era and sale agreed two weeks ago.
Modest kitchens to the rear were typically fitted in recent decades, with a table at which to eat and two chairs.
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