Are you lonesome tonight in your
castle Lisa Marie?
 By
Staff reporter
A celebrity hunting for a new home in Ireland is set to have her potential
neighbours all shook up.
According to reports Elvis Presley’s daughter Lisa Marie, aged 38,
and a number of her friends have viewed Cork’s historic Mallow Castle
which is on sale for £6.5million.
They have also visited a nearby stud farm with the same asking price in
the past few days.
North Cork has become a mecca for celebrities seeking the quiet life.
Ironically Lisa Marie’s former husband, pop prince Michael Jackson,
spent several weeks just down the road at Blackwater Castle in Castletownroche
which he used as a base last June for mansion-hunting forays.
The four-times married Lisa Marie — whose previous husbands include
the actor Nicolas Cage — visited Waterloo Stud Farm, a 60-acre site
with an indoor jumping arena, which is near the racecourse in Mallow.
She also went to Clonmel where she looked over the famous Knocklofty House
— formerly owned by Lord Donoughmore — which has an asking
price of £13million, and the nearby Marfield House.
Lisa Marie, Elvis and Priscilla Beaulieu Presley’s only child, inherited
the King’s multi-million dollar estate eight years ago.
In August 2005 she sold 85 per cent of the estate’s business holdings
to CKX Inc, excluding Graceland itself and the property within it.
On January 22 last year Presley married guitarist and music producer Michael
Lockwood in Kyoto, Japan.
She met Lockwood through her first husband Danny Keough and Keough served
as best man at the couple’s wedding.
Lockwood didn’t come with her on the house-hunting trip but she
was accompanied by a number of German friends.
Liam Lynch managing director of auctioneers Lynch & Company in Cork
confirmed he took Lisa Marie to see a number of sites but declined to
say what her intentions are.
Mr Lynch is no stranger to dealing with celebrities. In 1999 he sold the
former home of Ireland’s first president Douglas Hyde to dancer
Michael Flatley for £3million. Since then Flatley has invested more
than £20million in Castlehyde House near Fermoy.
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