A 45ac residential farm has come on the market near Ballineen, Co Cork. The wider area has intensive dairying, so the holding will generate plenty of interest.

The property at Shanaway Middle, centred between Dunmanway, Clonakilty and Bandon and 4km from Ballineen, is being sold by Hodnett Forde by private treaty and this is an executors’ sale. The land is in one working block but is divided by the public road into two divisions. It has frontage on to two public roads, one the Rossmore to Ballineen road, the other a local road. The land is all in grass and has been leased out for a number of years.

The 45ac is all in grass.

The house and yard are together and sited on the smaller road. The farmhouse is two-storey and has been empty for about 10 years. It needs modernisation and redecoration. The yard is beside the house and has a number of traditional sheds, some with stone walls.

Auctioneer John Hodnett is guiding this holding at €650,000. That is based on €12,000/ac for the land and c€100,000 for the house and yard.