Thatch and dairy is attractive mix
Estate agent Maragaret Harty is selling this “chocolate-box” farm, in what is regarded as a prime farming area on the main Dungarvan to Cappoquin road.
The property has “good life” written all over it for West Waterford’s many “alternative” agriculturalists.
The 36.4 acres is all in one block, has good road frontage with a central farm roadway, and a range of outbuildings. Some of these have been converted to stables, says Ms Harty, as cows haven’t been milked on the farm for some time, although it has been grazed. It would make a very good organic or part-time holding, and should attract the hobby farmer, especially with stables already in situ.
The prettiness notwithstanding, the land is well kept and the milk quota too should raise the interest of ‘real’ farmers in the property.
The house has been lovingly maintained for years, says Ms Harty. While it dates from the early 1800s, it was modernised in the late 1990s.
The property will go to auction on April 11 at the Park Hotel, Dungarvan. Ms Harty gives a guide of €700,000, but qualifies that with the comment that the farm ‘could suit a lot of people’.
