Over the guide price for 496 acres

Two properties exceeded their guide prices at auction in Macroom last week for Sherry FitzGerald Hinchion.

First up was a stunning residential property at Dereenboy Upper, Glengarriff, Co Cork, which came with 452 acres of mountainy land, including native oak forest in a Special Area of Conservation.

Abutting the boundary of the State forest, the farm includes Barley Lake (the eventual buyer often walked the 11 miles from Adrigole as a child, to fish in the mountaintop waters).