IT was to have gone to auction, but this week, a 76-acre farm at Girlough, Dunmanway, sold by private treaty for €875,000.

THIS substantial farm holding near Carbery Milk Products at Ballineen, Co Cork, offers 76 acres (30.76 hectares) of top quality land in a single block.

THE Milner household in Ballinacarriga is quiet. Situated idyllically, there is a clichéd yet reassuring serenity in the Girlough townland. But Michael Milner is doing his best to disrupt all that.