A 140ac residential farm with plenty of potential is on the market in Co Westmeath. It will go for auction at the end of this month. It’s at Castledown, The Downs, outside Mullingar. Among the highlights of this farm are that it’s in one self-contained block, it’s good quality grassland, it has useful cattle sheds and the house is family-sized. It has been brought to the market by Mullingar auctioneer James L Murtagh.
The farm has good grassland.
The Downs is a well-known intensive farming area with beef, tillage, dairy and sheep all going on. To find the property for sale, head out from The Downs in the direction of Cloghan. After 2km take a turn to the right and Castledown is there. The land is on both left and right, meaning there is good road frontage, totalling nearly 1km. The house and sheds are on the right hand side.
The land at Castledown is good-quality grassland with little waste. It’s laid out in decent-sized divisions and fields, all bounded by mature hedges. Some of the land would benefit from maintenance work including some drainage, some ditch cleaning and reseeding
The four-bay slatted shed with centre passage was built in the 1990s. It's in good working conditon.
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The auctioneers state that it would make a good dairy farm, were someone to make the necessary investment.
The farm has two cattle sheds. One is a four-bay slatted shed with a centre feed passage. There are also feed rails at the edges of the shed. It has capacity for over 80 adult cattle. This shed would have been built in the 1990s and is in good working condition. This shed is sited a distance away from the house and it has its own entrance from the public road.
This round-roofed shed has been fitted with feed barriers at the front. It's a straw-bedded shed.
The other shed is behind the farmhouse. It is a three-bay round-roofed shed set up with feed barriers. In front of this is a cattle handling yard with a chute. This shed and yard are connected to the other one by a farm roadway.
The house
The house is two storey and has four bedrooms. It is on an elevated site meaning it is dry and has good views over the surrounding countryside. It is not overlooked by any neighbours. The house was lived in until three or four years ago.
The house is two storey and has four bedrooms but is in need of modernisation.
With modernisation and redecoration it would make a lovely family home.
Downstairs in the house is an entrance hallway measuring 3.5 × 2.1m.
The kitchen is 4.5m × 2.1m; the dining room measures 4.5m × 3.9m and the sitting room 3.9m × 4.5m.
The sitting room at Castledown.
There’s a bedroom downstairs measuring 5.1m × 3.2m and with an ensuite measuring 2.1m × 1.8m.
Upstairs are three bedrooms and bathroom. Bedroom two is 4.3m × 4.7m. Bedroom three is 2.4m × 3.2m and bedroom four is 4m × 4.6m. The bathroom measures 3.8m × 2.4m.
The house is spacious and bright.
Lots
The farm will be offered for sale in lots as follows:
Lot 1 will be the house on 5.3ac. The auctioneers are quoting a guide price of €150,000 for this lot. Lot 2 will be 18.5ac all in one division, all in permanent pasture and with good road frontage. The guide price for this is €150,000.Lot 3 will be the 116ac of land with the slatted shed. The guide price for this is €600,000. Lot 4 will be the entire.The auction will take place on Friday 30 October at 3pm in the Greville Arms Hotel in Mullingar. However, James L Murtagh auctioneers state that if COVID-19 restrictions are tightened further, then the sale may take place via online auction. This means that interested parties should register with the auctioneers to secure access to the sale event, whichever it will be.
A 140ac residential farm with plenty of potential is on the market in Co Westmeath. It will go for auction at the end of this month. It’s at Castledown, The Downs, outside Mullingar. Among the highlights of this farm are that it’s in one self-contained block, it’s good quality grassland, it has useful cattle sheds and the house is family-sized. It has been brought to the market by Mullingar auctioneer James L Murtagh.
The farm has good grassland.
The Downs is a well-known intensive farming area with beef, tillage, dairy and sheep all going on. To find the property for sale, head out from The Downs in the direction of Cloghan. After 2km take a turn to the right and Castledown is there. The land is on both left and right, meaning there is good road frontage, totalling nearly 1km. The house and sheds are on the right hand side.
The land at Castledown is good-quality grassland with little waste. It’s laid out in decent-sized divisions and fields, all bounded by mature hedges. Some of the land would benefit from maintenance work including some drainage, some ditch cleaning and reseeding
The four-bay slatted shed with centre passage was built in the 1990s. It's in good working conditon.
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The auctioneers state that it would make a good dairy farm, were someone to make the necessary investment.
The farm has two cattle sheds. One is a four-bay slatted shed with a centre feed passage. There are also feed rails at the edges of the shed. It has capacity for over 80 adult cattle. This shed would have been built in the 1990s and is in good working condition. This shed is sited a distance away from the house and it has its own entrance from the public road.
This round-roofed shed has been fitted with feed barriers at the front. It's a straw-bedded shed.
The other shed is behind the farmhouse. It is a three-bay round-roofed shed set up with feed barriers. In front of this is a cattle handling yard with a chute. This shed and yard are connected to the other one by a farm roadway.
The house
The house is two storey and has four bedrooms. It is on an elevated site meaning it is dry and has good views over the surrounding countryside. It is not overlooked by any neighbours. The house was lived in until three or four years ago.
The house is two storey and has four bedrooms but is in need of modernisation.
With modernisation and redecoration it would make a lovely family home.
Downstairs in the house is an entrance hallway measuring 3.5 × 2.1m.
The kitchen is 4.5m × 2.1m; the dining room measures 4.5m × 3.9m and the sitting room 3.9m × 4.5m.
The sitting room at Castledown.
There’s a bedroom downstairs measuring 5.1m × 3.2m and with an ensuite measuring 2.1m × 1.8m.
Upstairs are three bedrooms and bathroom. Bedroom two is 4.3m × 4.7m. Bedroom three is 2.4m × 3.2m and bedroom four is 4m × 4.6m. The bathroom measures 3.8m × 2.4m.
The house is spacious and bright.
Lots
The farm will be offered for sale in lots as follows:
Lot 1 will be the house on 5.3ac. The auctioneers are quoting a guide price of €150,000 for this lot. Lot 2 will be 18.5ac all in one division, all in permanent pasture and with good road frontage. The guide price for this is €150,000.Lot 3 will be the 116ac of land with the slatted shed. The guide price for this is €600,000. Lot 4 will be the entire.The auction will take place on Friday 30 October at 3pm in the Greville Arms Hotel in Mullingar. However, James L Murtagh auctioneers state that if COVID-19 restrictions are tightened further, then the sale may take place via online auction. This means that interested parties should register with the auctioneers to secure access to the sale event, whichever it will be.
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