Mark Zuckerberg is king… of an Irish castle near a Meta office

Mark Zuckerberg just bought a nearly 200-year-old castle in Ireland. John Nacion/Variety via Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg has a hot new — but also 200-year-old — pad in Ireland.The billionaire CEO of Meta and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have purchased a nearly Gothic property called Strancally Castle in Waterford County, Ireland. The property is located about 140 miles south of the company's international headquarters in Dublin."Mark and his family are excited to continue caring for this historic home and look forward to spending time in Ireland, where Meta maintains its international headquarters," Zuckerberg's spokesperson, Brian Baker, said in an email statement to Business Insider.The news was first reported by The Irish Times on Thursday, which wrote that the couple purchased the 440-acre Gothic castle on the banks of the River Blackwater.They bought the property from Michael Alen-Buckley, the cofounder of the London-based private investment firm RAB Capital, and his wife, Giancarla. The news outlet said that while the property's actual price is unknown, it estimates that Zuckerberg and Chan forked out between 20 and 30 million euros — or $23 and $35 million — for the estate.The three-story castle was built between 1825 and 1835 for John Keily, a former conservative MP, according to a record by the National Built Heritage Service of Ireland.A Meta spokesperson told Business Insider that Zuckerberg and Chan have been looking for an Irish home base for some time. The company employs about 1,500 people across its offices in Dublin and Cork and operates a data center in Clonee, County Meath, near Dublin.Strancally Castle is the latest addition to Zuckerberg's sprawling real estate portfolio. He owns several homes in the Crescent Park neighborhood of Palo Alto, a short drive from Meta's headquarters in Menlo Park.He has been reported to own several other properties, including two adjacent estates on the shore of Lake Tahoe, a doomsday ranch in Hawaii, and a mansion on a "Billionaire Bunker" island in Miami. Read next Aditi is a news reporter at Business Insider’s Singapore bureau. She covers hustle culture and the future of work, focusing on how AI and technology are reshaping jobs, careers, and workplaces.She previously worked for The Straits Times, where she wrote breaking news stories for the Singapore desk. She studied communications and business at Nanyang Technological University. Mark Zuckerberg Meta