Lisheen farm price is €1.5m

ONE and a half million euro is the asking price for this 26 acre farm at Ardnagroherey, near Church Cross, Skibbereen, and while it might make some farmers gasp, locals are a little blasé about elevated West Cork prices.

The land of west Cork, tenaciously held onto through famine, war, and mass emigration is now turning into gold as rich Irish replace rich Europeans in the rush for coastal properties. This Lisheen farm is not quite on Roaringwater Bay, but it’s only a paddock away, and has magnificent views of the land and sea, says auctioneer Maeve McCarthy.

The property has a typical West Cork farmhouse that’s in very good condition, and there’s a very attractive stone yard. This has huge development potential, says Ms McCarthy, of the family firm of Charles McCarthy Auctioneers, Skibbereen.