Buy 91 acres and a factory
Some 91 acres and a range of buildings covering 8,750 square metres will go for auction on February 9, but without a guide price.
Selling agent PF Quirke says he has no intention of giving a reserve prior to the auction of the facility, which has not been in use for the past five or six years.
The vendors are a consortium headed up by the Ronan family (members of the extended family head up both Enfer Technology and Treasury Holdings), who were twice refused planning for an animal by-product, bio-energy incinerator on the site. Avglade — comprised of the Ronans, Dawn Meats and Bioverda — planned to process 150,000 tonnes of animal by-products from the meat industry to make bio-diesel and bio-energy, generating up to 15MW of electricity. The latest refusal came in 2008, after strong local objections, including Aidan O’Brien at the nearby Ballydoyle racehorse training centre, and John and Susan Magnier of Coolmore and Castlehyde stud farms.
The land, with agricultural values of €8,000 to 15,000 per acre is top quality, and should draw in farmer buyers. The Rosegreen area is renowed for its land quality. This 91-acre parcel is used for tillage and grazing at present.
The land can’t be sold without the factory, but as PF Quirke puts it, he will sell the factory without the land. The land could be worth €1.36m. The factory has up-to-date plant and machinery.
