Top land stands proud in Cork

Cork people have a well-deserved reputation for being boastful — but in south Cork they take that a little further, confident in the knowledge that they have some of the finest land in the country.

Which is why Trevor McCarthy of Irish and European doesn’t bat an eyelid, when he cooly claims €15,000 an acre for this 50.02 acre farm at Cummeen, Carrigaline.

Just outside the estuarine town, and on the Minane Bridge road, this tidy block of tillage ground is top quality and is easily worth the guide price, he asserts. After all, it’s south Cork land, isn’t it?

The residential farm includes a two-storey farmhouse that’s really only a derelict building, albeit structure and roof appear sound.

It sits handily on one side of the road and is flanked by two fields which come to about 6.5 acres and which can be sold separately.

Considering the location so close to the town and the roadside position, this could be ideal hobby farm material, especially with tight planning regulations locally.

The remainder of the land, some 43.70 acres, is on the other side of the road and is laid out in five, level divisions with excellent road frontage and a south-facing position.

The farm can also be purchase in one 50-acre lot at €750,000, by private treaty.

Meanwhile, Trevor McCarthy is tightlipped about another high-profile sale in the Carrigaline area which he’s currently negotiating.

The 165-acre holding on the Currabinny side of Carrigaline is “progressing nicely”, says McCarthy and has seen “very good, sustained interest” but further than that he will not go. It can only be concluded that a deal is in the offing, but well under wraps. The last news is that it was making €13,000 per acre.