Rare period farmhouse

IT isn’t often that a modern dairy farm with a very old period residence comes on the market. But buyers have history as well as agricultural property on offer, with the launch of Egmont House last week.

Located at Churchtown, Mallow, Co Cork, the house and 94-acre farm have been in the Sherlock family for three generations, but now Billy Sherlock is retiring and the property is being sold through John Paul Sheehan of Lisney.

It’s a fine farm to kick off the new sales year, and Churchtown is acknowledged as having some of the best quality grazing land in the county — one of the reasons for the large cluster of period houses around the village.