Scenic setting for 460 acres of farmland

FAR, far from the madding crowd, and with a privacy belt of 460 acres, Lackavane, Kealkil is not for the agoraphobic.

Or, for the short of pocket, as a farm of this size will require a million or two of spending money.

Set in one of the most beautiful and still unspoilt areas of West Cork, (hippie-central, the cynical would say), it’s a rare sale because of the amount of acreage available — even if one-third is mountain, and the other third bog. There is at least one-third of sheep grazing left over, according to James Crowley of Keane Mahony Smith, and that’s good pasture land, he says.