Farm for sale at bloodstock epicentre of North Cork

The house on the 25-acre residential farm, new to the market at Buttevant, where Napoleon is said to have bought his horse ‘Marengo’, and where point-to-point horse racing started.

If the pub-quiz question ever comes up “Where in Ireland did Napoleon Bonaparte buy his horse?” the answer is to be found in North Cork, in an area which many see as one of the original epicentres of the world-famous Irish bloodstock industry.

Although farming is very mixed in the area around Buttevant and Doneraile, any of its many dairying and grain farmers will tell you that this part of Ireland is steeped in equine tradition.