Historic home in gateway area
Called ‘Charter House’ and surrounded by some fine level land on the Charleville town boundary, the property is now on the market to sell, according to joint agents, Michael Barry and Pat Carroll, and has a reserve close to €900,000.
The property is a pristine farm with little waste and plenty of road frontage, and although a dirty word at the moment, it also has development potential, as it adjoins the town’s boundary.
In fact it’s just behind the large filling station/ restaurant on the Cork side of Charleville, for those who are familiar with the Cork/ Limerick road.
The farm comprises 78 acres and the farmhouse and yard, which are centred in the property with access from a minor road, just off the main N20.
The Rathgoggin farm is maintained to modern standards with two large fields, both in and around the 20 acre mark, and the remainder in four divisions, with plenty of road frontage.
The townland appears in Samuel Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary of Ireland in 1837, where there is mention made to several schools and a fever hospital, all funded through the good offices of the Earl of Cork and mention is also made to a charter house:
“Near the town was formerly a charter school for female foundlings, which has been discontinued for many years: the buildings are at present occupied as a dwelling-house by the incumbent, the Rev J R Cotter, the inventor of a new and very powerful bass wind instrument, called the Basso Hibernico, which obtained the patronage of George IV, and was introduced into his band.”
The name Charter House could also derive from the charter of incorporation for Charleville as a market and post town from Charles II in 1671 and the property that bears the name today may have a connection in that sense.
“This town, so named in honour of Charles II, is of comparatively recent origin, having been founded by Roger, first Earl of Orrery and Lord-President of Munster, in the year 1661.
“That nobleman erected a magnificent mansion here for his own residence, in which he kept his court of presidency, and by his influence obtained for the inhabitants a charter of incorporation from Charles II, dated May 29th, 1671,” according to Lewis.
But whatever about past history, the property’s history today is that, as an executor’s sale, it will be sold at auction and joint agents, Property Partners Dick Barry and Carroll Auctioneers, are prepared to sell in lots or the entire.
The first lot includes a substantial, two-storey farm house, in need of attention, according to the agents, and a mix of modern farm building and old stone outbuildings with some fine limestone finishes.
This lot includes a 20-acre parcel, all in one field and with frontage on two sides and it has a pre-auction guide of €300,000.
Lot 2, meanwhile, is an adjoining 21-acre field, with plenty of road frontage and lot 3 is the remaining 37 acres of land laid out in four divisions and which may have development potential, says Michael Barry.
The land is on offer at a baseline figure of €10,000 per acre, bringing the pre-auction total for the entire to €880,000.
