Vendor asks €9m for Lisselan farm

News this week of the proposed sale of Lisselan Esate, near Clonakility, Co Cork will prompt reminders of the significant sale price of around 15,000 achieved for its home farm early in this decade. 

Lisselan highlighted the strength of the dairy sector in particular in an economy that was moribund at the time. The sale saw huge interest and made a record price for the country, as well as the county, at the time. It was purchased by a well-know dairying family from Bandon.

This time round, who will buy the remainder of the Blackburn-family owned estate? Quatari buyers have been quite prominent of late, in prime bloodstock breeding areas of Tipperary and Limerick — perhaps the home of Imperial Call may be the calling card for single strong buyer? Because that’s what’s needed in this single-lot, 9million sale of 310 acres. Vendors are again the Blackburn family — who are perhaps best known for having the master franchise for Mitsubishi in the British Isles and who have also concentrated on bloodstock in recent years.