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MORE than 500 years of mixed fortunes are encapsulated in three historic Irish estates that have recently come to the market. James Butler of Savills in Dublin (00 35 31 618 1300) is handling the sale of two of them: the picturesque, 448-acre Belle Isle estate overlooking Lough Erne in Co Fermanagh and the thriving, 751-acre Barne residential and farming estate in Co Tipperary’s Golden Vale, for which he quotes guide prices of £7.5 million and €13.5m (£11.6m) respectively.
Following the Flight of the Earls in September 1607, when the Gaelic Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell set sail from Donegal to seek Spanish support in their long-running conflict with the English Crown, James I declared the estates of the refugee earls forfeit and intensified the colonisation of
