Millgrove Farm is situated directly across the road from the Ballymascanlon House Hotel Golf and Leisure club along the R173, just off the Dublin-Belfast M1 motorway and very close to the famous Cooley peninsula.

From the road, the land feeds back down towards the River Flurry. The land will be offered in its entirety or in two separate lots.

Tillage ground

Lot one comprises c59 acres. It is the best of the land and is currently planted with spring barley and drills of leeks. The soil quality here is excellent. It is dry and well drained and ideal for planting cereals, potatoes or vegetables.

Also contained in lot one is 7.68 acres, which has been labelled as a “nature reserve”. This ground is all waste and has no agricultural value whatsoever. It is the section closest to the River Flurry and is overgrown and covered in reeds.

The second lot, described as the grazing lands, comprises 29.72 acres and is of decent quality. The land is all in grass and is currently used to graze sheep by a local farmer. Over the years, hay and baled silage has been taken off this land, but is now in need of some work where rushes have grown on low-lying points, particularly the low area close to the road.

Unique sale

According to selling agent Brian Carroll of Sherry Fitzgerald Carroll, Dundalk, Millgrove Farm is “a very unique sale as it is extremely rare to see a land holding of this scale come to the market in Co Louth, a county which has consistently had a very low supply of land offered for sale on the open market”

On average over the course of a year, Brian Carroll says he might sell 200 acres of land in this area, so for a farm this size to come on the market is truly different.

“The sale of Millgrove Farm will undoubtedly attract buyers from the local area of the Cooley Peninsula and north Louth, but given its location adjacent to the M1 Motorway, we also expect strong interest from all areas of Louth, Meath and Northern Ireland,” added Carroll.

Millgrove Farm will be offered for sale by public auction on 18 September at Ballymascanlon House Hotel, Dundalk, at 3pm. The sale is being handled by Sherry Fitzgerald Carroll and is guided at €900,000 or just over €10,000 per acre.