Only a mile or so from here is Ireland's busiest film stage location Ardmore Studios, so it was a no-brainer that Kilruddery became the outdoor location for a host of Irish-shot films such as Far and away, My Left Foot, The Magnificent Ambersons and Aristocrats.

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Oakleigh Thorne, heir to a century-old fortune built on tax guidebooks, owns a square mile of cattle pastures here, or so it appears from tax assessment rolls.

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Their locations were barely a mile apart, basically on consecutive exits from the same freeway ( map here).

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