Offers over €5,700 per acre sought for West Cork farm

Skibbereen-based auctioneer Pat Maguire should be reasonably confident of a good deal of interest in a 44-acre non-residential holding that has just come on the market.

It is located in the townland of Dromilihy, approximately 2km from the village of Leap, famous in legend from the story of the chieftain O’Donovan (the Irish name is Léim Uí Dhonnabháin) escaping his English persecutors by making an enormous ‘leap’ on his horse, and famous also for its alluring charm in a coastal setting surrounded by soft hills.