Enticing residential farm
In this instance the term residential is expectant rather than descriptive — because the two-storey farmhouse is in need of full restoration (or the tender ministrations of a demolition excavator).
However, in this green belt area the interest is there, and David Keane says he expects to open at €150,000 for the house, plus a second, even older and more derelict dwelling, and a range of old stone outhouses, including what he describes as a “good” loft.
The main event is the land, comprising 32 acres minus an acre or so around the house, which is superb, he says.
And the phone has been ringing strongly, he says, since the preliminary announcement, with a lot of local farmers aware of the quality of the ground.
Good, dry, level limestone land, in a position just off the N25 and a mere half mile south of the village of Carrigtwohill, this is a prize farm, he says, and he backs that up with a €15,000 per acre guide price.
The agent expects to reach €200,000 for the farmhouse and yard, and expects to exceed the guide price, perhaps, for the remaining five fields, which are interconnecting.
There is adequate road frontage for the land and the house/yard, and the agent is selling the Barryscourt property by private treaty.
And if proof were needed for the quality of the land, the presence of a defensive castle in the area shows that past landowners took great pains to hold onto their prize.
