Quality 170-acre farm guiding at €10,000 an acre

The most concrete sign of the quality of this land at Carrigcastle, Newmarket, Co Cork, is that almost 140 acres of it is under corn. This is most unusual for its area of north Cork, but agent Michael Brady of the Brady Group, says the farm is unusual in other ways too.

Firstly, it’s a decent size, in one compact block and its fertility is undoubted — it’s an ideal, walk-in dairy operation too, he says, and offers a total of 170 acres in one block.

In fact, the farm was used as a dairy enterprise up to ten years ago, when the owners, now vendors, entered the farm retirement scheme and the property has been leased since then.