Golden vale farm has right ingredients
It’s on the market as a private treaty sale with Micheal Brady of the Brady Group, and he says this is a different sort of buy as it includes an old stone farmhouse and courtyard in need of considerable restoration.
If this property were in the greater Cork area it would fetch a lot more than its guide price of €1.4m, says Brady (who has just opened new offices on Cork’s Lee Road).
The agent says this property has fine Golden Vale farmland all in one block, which would suit an expanding local farmer. Set in its centre, the U-shaped courtyard could suit re-development, or could be bulldozed and replaced by a modern house and stable yard if it were to be purchased by a hobby farm buyer. In the entrance and cut stone buildings it has some of the attributes of a fine, country home.
The farm comes with a Single Farm Payment of just over €3,000 per annum, Used for drystock farming, it was laid out in largish divisions with high hedges, and mature timber is a feature. There are two farm ponds and it has the Bealanablaya River on its boundary.
The property has frontage onto a minor road. It is just 1km from Newtownhandrum — famous for hurling, home of Cork’s O’Connor twins — and is 5km from Charleville. It is equidistant from Limerick or Cork — an attractive location for hobby farmers.
