ERA Donohoe Properties had a great auction last week at the Newpark Hotel in Kilkenny.

TWO farms, both part of the same estate, are due up for auction tomorrow as part of an executor’s sale at the New Park Hotel Kilkenny. According to agent Ed Donohoe of ERA Donohoe Properties, the sales will set a benchmark for land in the area.

‘MAKE your dreams a reality’ is emblazoned across the top of the brochure for a rather anodyne-looking property at Borris in Co Carlow.

A MILL for every mile of its length — that’s what’s said of the Kings River, in Kilkenny, a tributary of the Nore which runs through the county’s rich farmland.