Michael Bowes has decided to retire from running the Fernhill Hotel, in Carrigaline after 66 years of business and is selling  the 39-bed hotel, with 10 holiday homes alongside, his own private residence, on 5.5 acres. The properties are being sold by Savills Cork, who guide at €4.5 million.

Not included in the sale offer is the adjacent Fernhill Golf Club, also developed by the Bowes family and which, like this 5.5 acres, is zoned Strategic Land Reserve (SLR) with a possibility of more specific future development'

  Born 79 years ago in Birr, Co Offaly, Michael Bowes left school at 13, went to England in 1953, and trained in plumbing/sanitary engineering in London’s Holbrook Road polytechni

He worked in England with the William Press & Son engineering company which at one time employed 16,000, and they moved him back to Cork in 1971 to supervise the construction of the Pfizer plant.

 

 Fernhill Hotel, Golf and Country Club, a three-star  has 39 en-suite bedrooms, residents’ bar, dining room and includes a former health club and the entire property on 5.5 acres — including ten holiday homes, and private home — overlook the adjoining Fernhill golf course on 75 acres, owned by the Bowes family and whose director are Michael Bowes and his son Alan. The course and club reaffiliated after a restructuring with the GUI several years ago, but is not included in the current €4.5 m sale via Peter O’Meara and Emmet Finnegan of Savills.