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 added another multimillion-dollar property to his real estate portfolio.

His newest purchase is a nearly 200-year-old castle in Ireland, 140 miles from Meta's international HQ.

The estate is vast and historic, and it only looks mildly haunted.

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.