Fine grazing land on offer at lower price
Despite the bidding and the amount of money offered, it never sold in the end, probably due to reluctance on the part of the owner, well-known local poet Willie O’Regan.
Now, however, the farm is a probate sale, and the proceeds of this divinely located property are going to charities. So what better time of year to relaunch the sale?
Back in that summer, (a good one), the land stood up to its description, it’s fine grazing land that projects into the sea and comes with two private beaches. At the time, it was lusted after by the credit-rich second home buyers, but didn’t sell.
Now, the original asking price of €1.1m has been reduced to a much saner €600,000 or thereabouts, through joint agents, Maeve McCarthy of Charle McCarthy Auctioneers. and John Hodnett of Hodnett Forde Auctioneers.
Fronting onto Roaringwater Bay and Rincolisky Harbour, the farm comprises a residence and separate converted outhouse which functions as an apartment.
The land runs from one end of the peninsula to the other, and ends in the private beaches, effectively, two small inlets into the pasture ground.
The land is laid out in large fields which interconnect, and there’s frontage onto the main road which ends at Cunnamore Pier, the ferry point to Heir Island.
The house and outhouse could be sold separately, as there’s a driveway from the road, and the bulk of the land, and farm sheds, run back behind the house.
The joint agents are open to offers on the property, which bounds the Whitehall Estate, sold in the early part of the noughties for €1.5m.
The farm is also close to Rincolisky Castle, an O’Driscoll clan redoubt built in 1495, and facing Jeremy Irons’ McCarthy Ríoch Castle across the bay.
Whitehall Farm was home to Willie O’Regan, who was born and reared on the nearby West Skeam island, one of Carbery’s Hundred Isles, and left there for the mainland in 1943. He catalogued the life and times of his hinterland and wrote epics, odes and elegies which have a strong local circulation. He passed away in October.
The farmhouse has a main kitchen, sitting room and three bedrooms with a bathroom and kitchen extension to the rear.
Skibbereen is a 10-minute drive away. Ballydehob and Schull are a short drive in the opposite direction.
