Oonagh Mary ready to leave the family mansion

AS Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger will soon be a dad, for the eighth time at 73, the stately mansion, Bermingham House near Tuam, where he and a former lover, singer Marianne Faithfull once stayed, is for sale by owner Oonagh Mary Hyland who first befriended the pair as a teenager in 1968.
It was her mother Lady Mollie Cusack-Smith who owned the house when Mick and Marianne stayed there. But while it will be one of the nostalgic memories about the stately home that will always remain with Oonagh Mary, she was not overawed by the star guests.
“I became very friendly with Marianne who spent a lot of time in her room during the stay and I would be in there chatting with her as I liked her a lot. Oonagh Mary hopes that whoever purchases the house and surrounding lands might turn it into a hotel-cum-golf club, and perhaps a concert venue, as Lord Henry Mountcharles has done with Slane Castle. “Its walled garden would make it ideal for concerts,” she says.

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