Meta chief executive paid roughly €20m for gothic-style mansion built in 1830 and its surroundings
It stretches the definition of pied-à-terre but Mark Zuckerberg now has a pad in Ireland: Strancally castle.
The Meta chief executive and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have bought the gothic-style mansion and its 178-hectare (440-acre) estate in county Waterford to use as a base during visits to Ireland.
“Mark and his family are excited to continue caring for this historic home and look forward to spending time in Ireland, where Meta maintains its international headquarters,” a spokesperson said on Thursday.
The price paid in the off-market deal is not known but the Irish Times, which first reported the sale, estimated a value between €20m (£17m) and €30m: approximately 10% of the cost of his 387ft superyacht.
One notes the absence of a goddamned data center on the property. Good enough for American backyards, not good enough for him.
May it be a curse to him.
I wonder how constrained he will be by planning laws.
I sincerely wish Mark the best of luck for his new home. I hope he spends ten, nay, hundred times as much as he paid for it, on renovating the place and making it fit for him. I hope he truly spends every dime to make this place fit for a modern king.
And then I hope he doesn’t get to live in it for a single day.
Ah yes, the story of Saint Michael’s Castle.
I hope he escapes to it when the revolution kicks off, only to find the revolution is in Ireland too, and be gets hung at the doorstep.
Ahh, who am I kidding. Ireland might do it, but he’d never escape there because Americans will never revolt, they’ll just elect a bunch of people who claim to be progressive and end up with the same exact party as before while patting themselves on the back.
Fun fact: Cromwell died from a mosquito bite during one of his campaigns in Ireland.
Dear Mosquitos, you know what to do.
go get him, rosie, go get him good.
i presume this is for tax dodging?
They have fabs on ireland
… dodging taxes.
30M? Chump change for him. Ireland, get a wealth tax ready just in case
I hope it’s full of fairies, banshees, and evil Alabama leprechauns.
May his days there be torture.
It’s gonna be guarded by 100 of those new Chinese Kung-Fu robots. A few of them will mow the lawns and maybe milk a cow.
BUILD A NEW ONE YOU CHEAP LAZY FUCK.
