137-acre Patchwork Farm of Potential on Shannon Estuary

The gently rolling hills that typify the topography of the land to the west of Limerick City are home to an interesting mixture of land uses, writes Conor Power. This is where one of the prime agricultural zones of Ireland sits shoulder-to-shoulder with one of the most important industrial regions of the country.

The lands are rich and productive and the levels of farming are generally intensive, with dairying being very much to the fore on the edges of the roughly-defined Golden Vale.