Golf course’s excess land suits to a tee
This time, the property is ‘the new nine’ at Charleville Golf Club.
Yes, while the hotel and golf market is dragging itself out of the slough of despond, adjustments are still being made.
In this case, the board of Charleville Golf Club are offering the land (which they bought to increase the course from 18 holes to 27) because it’s “excess to requirements,” says John Flynn.
It is being offered for sale in one lot.
Located in the townland of Ardmore, at Smith’s Road, Charleville, the property is roadside land and perfect for grazing, he says.
“It’s top-class grazing ground, and for land of this quality, we’d be looking somewhere in the vicinity of €10,000 per acre.
“It had good road frontage and there could be the possibility of a few sites down the line,” he says.
Formerly the ‘new nine’, it’s being sold jointly with Richard Ryan, of GVM (for whom Flynn worked for many years).
The Ardmore land is an 86-acre, roadside holding and while the grass is green and lush, it’s not the kind of land that will fatten cattle.
For any farmer buying this property — and it’s in a great location and may be ideal for replacements or drystock — it will need remediation.
That’s factored into the price, says Flynn, and the land includes a central roadway and a few sheds — old cattle sheds and a six-column, enclosed haybarn with lean-tos.
And while the agent admits that it will take work, Flynn says it’s “a fine stretch of ground.
And for a fella who’d have a few pound, it wouldn’t be so bad at all,” said the Charleville-based auctioneer.
