Fifty acres of land for sale in Blarney Business Park

A 50-acre tract of land is being sold for development at Cork’s Blarney Business Park, six miles from Cork city centre, on the N20 Mallow-Limerick road. It’s priced at €2.75m, or circa €55,000 an acre.

Ear-marked for development to tie in with local authority plans for a new Blarney ‘town’ at Stoneview (with commuter rail acces to the city), the Blarney Business Park started in 2001, on 70 acres. It was dogged by bad timing, including a launch just weeks before the 9/11 attacks in New York. It was only slowly gaining its feet, in the teeth of competiton from rival business parks and motor malls, such as East Gate, when the economy tanked in 2008.

The park was conceived of by local Blarney area businessman, Michael O’Regan, of MORH/Motorlink Logistics, with John Bowen, of the Bowen Group and ORAN Concrete, Galway.