Enticing residential farm

Across the fields from Barryscourt Castle in Co Cork, the 15th century tower house of the de Barry family, is a fine 33-acre 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.