Residential holding of 66 acres in Charleville
The 66-acre residential farm hits the new year market via John Collins and Associates as a private treaty, probate sale.
The somewhat anachronistic field names might be lost when the property is sold and cleared into larger paddocks, with the likelihood of the old pastures being ploughed and reseeded.
Despite possibilities as an organic small holding, this property will probably be subsumed into a larger, 21st century enterprise.
Located within a mile and a half of Ballyhea, and just off the main Cork-Limerick road, the property has good quality land in part and at least a half-mile of road frontage, all in one tidy, rectangular block, in 15 divisions.
The main house is at the end of a long driveway, and nestled amid old trees, with a lot of timber throughout the farm.
The yard includes a hay-barn, slatted house, and a number of old cow sheds and cattle stalls, most of which are very “last century”.
The main house, too, is about 90 years old, says auctioneer, John Collins, but oozes character, he says: “It’s a lovely little holding, really, really nice and half of the land is good and is being farmed. In fact, the entire farm is let.
“We’ve had an enormous amount of viewings, especially from people who know the place, people who would have known the farm and the people who lived there.
“It has fabulous, mature trees, and the house is set at the end of a long driveway and has lots of character.
“It was built about 90 years ago, and when you go in there’s the sitting room to the right and the kitchen-dining room to the left, and an enclosed staircase with window. Upstairs, there are low ceilings and exposed beams and loads of character.”
The farmhouse would respond beautifully to restoration, he says, and it connects to some of the older cow stalls, which could also be converted.
Because the farm is an executor’s sale, and because of its layout, the property is being sold by private treaty, in the entire.
John Collins prices it at €400,000.
While some fields aren’t up to scratch, they could be made productive.
The property will be sold, he says.
Based on interest so far, from outside the parish and even as far as the UK, the sale should go well.
“The expectation is that it won’t make less than €400,000, and will be sold,” John Collins says.
The property is less than three miles from Charleville.
