Land-residence package
A 96-acre holding, with a substantial, seven-bedroomed residence, it’s a relocation sale.
Peadar and Adrianna Hegarty, of Hegarty Properties, Midleton, are the agents for the sale, and they’re asking for €3m for this rare property. Once the home farm of Glenview House, (built in the 1780s and now in private hands), the Ballinaclasha farm has the remains of old, stone outbuildings which have been incorporated into a modern, efficient yard.
It’s expected that there will be two types of buyer: hobby farmers and ‘real farmers’. It is a superb land and residence package. Located at Ballinaclasha, three miles from the bustling, east Cork town of Midleton and four miles from Watergrasshill, the property’s appeal to the hobby farmer is the location, a half hour’s drive from Cork city, near the new commuter rail link (work is ongoing on the Mill Road station, which is due to open next year). So, horses and ponies could fit in beside the nine-to-five.
Good schools and amenities will be another draw, as will the proliferation of beaches and the Ballymaloe factor, here, in this “good life/organic” end of the country.
Ease of access, and proximity to one of the most sophisticated shopping towns in the south, will appeal to a certain buyer.
While the main house hasn’t got the period charm of a faded mansion, it has space aplenty and lots of potential. Built in 1990, it’s a simple, but not unattractive residence overlooking a wooden glen, in a leafy, private location.
The residence is paddock-fenced and has maturing, ornamental trees around its boundary, with a large parking area to the front.
Set back from the road, it’s quite impressive, with its big, limestone pillars and grandness of scale.
There’s a choice of living rooms on the south and western side, and, with a lick of paint, a new kitchen and flooring, this house could be bang up to date. The upper floor has seven bedrooms, none of which are pokey, and some could be used as a gym, office or even a couple of en-suite bathrooms. There is already a fine, big bathroom on the first floor.
Outside, a lofted double garage, (with lean-to glasshouse at the rear), provides space to accommodate a nanny/gardener/farm worker, or for storage.
The farm is used for drystock, at the moment, but, as can be deduced from the aerial photo, it’s good quality tillage ground.
High and dry, it has a long grazing season, and cattle are housed only from November to March, says the vendor.
The land is divided nearly equally by a public road. There’s another road on the northern boundary.
The lower fields lead to a wooded glen, and a stream which marks the farm’s boundary.
The vendors didn’t participate in REPS, but the land brings in €16,000 per annum in entitlements.
The land is entirely paddocked, and new fencing for sheep was done last year.
Because of the large amount of development land sold around Midleton and Carrigtwohill, there could be any number of buyers for the Ballinaclasha property, many of whom could more than meet the guide price.
The sale is by private treaty and the property is not open to offers on lots; it’s being sold in the entire.
