All kinds of everything at Castlemine Farm

CASTLEMINE Farm is a paragon of diversification. They keep their own animals, run a farm shop, sell at farmers’ markets, and run school tours and courses in dry curing bacon and making sausages.

Most of their cattle are Angus, with some Limousin, Charolais and Hereford. “We rear 80 to 100 cattle for meat every year. We have 60 cows, and we buy in year-old animals as well. They are all sold through the farm shop, the website and at the markets in Moycullen and Galway city”.

Along with the Angus cattle, the Allens carry up to 400 Suffolk and Texel lambs, and a similar number of bronze and white turkeys for Christmas.