Jim Mansfield

James Mansfield Sr. (9 April 1939 – 29 January 2014) was an Irish property developer and millionaire with a property portfolio that included the Citywest Hotel and Golf Resort, several developments local to the Saggart, Citywest and Tallaght areas, and Weston Airport.

Mansfield had been involved in high-profile disputes over planning permission for his developments. By 2011, Mansfield's companies' debts could not be serviced, and his commercial properties passed to the National Asset Management Agency.

Early life Mansfield was born on 9 April 1939 and was raised in Brittas, County Dublin. It was from this industry that Mansfield expanded his business empire to include the Mansfield Group and HSS Ltd.

Business career Mansfield's assets grew in the 1980s, according to a 2003 report in the Sunday Business Post , upon selling 100,000 tonnes of machinery, including some 1,100 earth-movers, which had been left over from the Falklands War between Britain and Argentina, for an estimated £100 million STG. The Irish Times estimated the profit at £19 million in the US and a further £7 million in the UK.

In 1999 he bought Palmerstown House, an estate near Johnstown, County Kildare, from Anne Moen Bullitt for IR£10million (€12.7million).

As of 2005 his wealth was estimated by Estates Gazette to be £264 million STG. In a 2006 interview with the Sunday Business Post, Mansfield claimed that his net worth had been independently valued at 1.6 billion euros.

Receivership Following the collapse of the Irish property bubble in the late 2000s, Mansfield had the main part of his empire, the Citywest Hotel complex, placed into receivership in 2010.

Mansfield suffered from multiple system atrophy (MSA), a rare condition that causes symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease. He died on 29 January 2014, aged 74, and was survived by his wife and their sons.