Us couple believed to be new owners of bellamont

A sale has been agreed for Cootehill’s Bellamont House and a US couple with Irish interests are thought to have done enough to get the deal over the line.
The property had been on the market from Ganly Walters for around €1.35m. However, it is believed that the selling price came in around €1.5-2m with anywhere between €1-2m in addition needed for renovations.
The selling agents had around 200 expressions of interest from all over the world with the US buyers eventually successful in a final bidding round of three interested parties.
In 2010, the 18th Century Palladian villa had been put on the market for €7.5m by then-owner Australian John Coote - it was the ancestral home of the Cootes but John died suddenly in 2012 and his company, Thameside Holding, put it back on the market.
Any possibility of the government buying “one of the most perfect examples of a Palladian villa”, according to A Guide to Irish Country Houses, had been shot down by Minister for Arts and Heritage Heather Humphreys, who, earlier this year, said there were no resources for such a purchase.