Yes they do.
The wealth would be in the acreage. The paintings could be worth anything but the question is whether the entire holding is held as security by a bank or hocked to some offshore financiers.
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They’d have the wealth of the land. I’d suspect they may be asset rich and cash poor in the style of all the old aristocracy but they won’t sell a button of what they own because they are all heirlooms. I’d say they are getting a fair wedge from All Together Now which has paid for the roof to be replaced and opening up the house so serfs like me can gawk at it gives them a valuable tax break. The son has started a distillery on site which might have seemed like a good idea at the time.
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The Beresford family, owned land in various parts of Ireland, including almost 40,000 acres in county Waterford, 26,000 in county Wicklow and over 4,500 acres in county Leitrim. The family remain amongst the largest land owners in all Ireland.
I’d say that’s the main source of their wealth right there, all that average on the Leitrim Riviera.
I hazard a guess that those 4500 acres are Sitka Spruce @Chancer
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You can chalk that down.
I would just add that the 40,000 acres in Waterford are of some of the best farmland in the country. It’s not like a big holding in the Wicklow mountains or the Scottish highlands.
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Sitka Spruce are a lovely tree.
They’re an abomination. The countryside is ruined with random plantations.
A dead zone, no wildlife, no hares, rabbits, foxes, birds only eerie silence.
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. I knew you’d bite! I wouldn’t know a Sitka Spruce if you bet me over the head with one.
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The tallest Sitka spruce in Ireland is in the gardens of Curraghmore House. The fifth Lord Waterford travelled to California and brought back a load of saplings in the 19th century.
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You’d know one if it was rammed up your arse.
I’ll give you the win on this one - the forestry issue is toxic.
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I’m surprised at you falling into @Spidey’s trap.It had fuckin bells on 
I’m virulently anti Sitka spruce in all its incarnations and make no apologies for condemning every fucker involved in its desecration of rural Ireland.
Thousands of rural folk left without power for weeks due to the greed of faceless hedge-funds and off-shore trusts maximising the last yard out of their already ample acreage without a care for the consequences.
Always enough for the needy but never enough for the greedy. Rant over.
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You don’t have to tell me pal
What do they do with the 40,000 acres of prime farmland? Is it rented out?
They farm it as far as I know.
That’s almost 10% of the whole area of the county