This year has seen a good selection of farms of over 100ac come on the market, each with their own highlights and mix of enterprises.
Now a 166ac farm of tillage and forestry has come up for sale, near Crookedwood in Co Westmeath. There’s no significant farmyard or sheds on this property but what it does have is a fine, modern house.
The farm is at Gartlandstown and is being sold by Murtagh Bros. It goes for online auction next month with a guide price of €1.4m. It’s an executor’s sale.
The farm is in a tranquil location. It is on a local road – the L1731 – but just 400m off the R394 main road linking Mullingar and Castlepollard. Mullingar, with all shops and services, is 14km away. Castlepollard, also busy, is 8km. Convenience shops and petrol stations are also near to hand at Collinstown, 6km away.
The 166ac is all in one block. The farm has a good length of frontage on the L1731, close to 1km.
The farm is divided up as 115ac in tillage and 50ac in forestry, with the house and yard on the remaining 1ac. The tillage is in seven main fields, all of regular shape suited for machinery. This is the best of the farm, with free-draining land that is well suited to winter crops. There is a good amount of cereal growing in this part of the county.
The old farmyard has these slate roofed sheds.
The forestry is in two large blocks, both planted 10 years ago and predominantly sitka spruce. Ten years of annual premium, with a value of approximately €10,000, remains to be claimed.
The house is close to the centre of the land, approached by a nice, tree-lined avenue of c500m. It’s close to an old farmyard. There is just a four-bay round-roofed hayshed and some older stone-walled, slate-roofed outbuildings. The hayshed needs repainting but is in reasonable condition. The old stone-walled outbuildings are in good condition considering their vintage.
The round-roofed hayshed.
However, the four-bedroom, single-storey house is impressive. It was built within the past 10 years. It is spacious at approximately 2,000ft2 and the rooms are generously sized. The house is bright and clean.
The kitchen is bright and spacious.
The kitchen has large fitted units with pine-coloured cupboards and drawers. These, along with the bright floor tiles, make for a bright cheery kitchen. The sitting room is large and has a solid fuel stove and French doors out to the garden. The main bathroom is modern, clean and bright.
The sitting room has a feature stove and fine French doors to the outside.
The attic was made with a cut roof meaning it is easily accessible for storage use and can be readily converted to living area. It has two velux roof windows. The house has dual heating by oil and solid fuel.
The bathroom is clean and bright.
The large attic has two velux-style windows. It could be converted to living area.
There is a pebble parking area to the front and side of the house. As of yet, little work has been done putting in gardens – they are a blank slate awaiting a new owner. However, there is plenty of potential as the house is on a nice elevated site and there are already some fine mature trees nearby.
The 166ac is in one block and has close to 1km of frontage on the public road.
The online auction takes place on Thursday 3 November at 3pm on the LSL platform. The farm is being sold in one lot.
This year has seen a good selection of farms of over 100ac come on the market, each with their own highlights and mix of enterprises.
Now a 166ac farm of tillage and forestry has come up for sale, near Crookedwood in Co Westmeath. There’s no significant farmyard or sheds on this property but what it does have is a fine, modern house.
The farm is at Gartlandstown and is being sold by Murtagh Bros. It goes for online auction next month with a guide price of €1.4m. It’s an executor’s sale.
The farm is in a tranquil location. It is on a local road – the L1731 – but just 400m off the R394 main road linking Mullingar and Castlepollard. Mullingar, with all shops and services, is 14km away. Castlepollard, also busy, is 8km. Convenience shops and petrol stations are also near to hand at Collinstown, 6km away.
The 166ac is all in one block. The farm has a good length of frontage on the L1731, close to 1km.
The farm is divided up as 115ac in tillage and 50ac in forestry, with the house and yard on the remaining 1ac. The tillage is in seven main fields, all of regular shape suited for machinery. This is the best of the farm, with free-draining land that is well suited to winter crops. There is a good amount of cereal growing in this part of the county.
The old farmyard has these slate roofed sheds.
The forestry is in two large blocks, both planted 10 years ago and predominantly sitka spruce. Ten years of annual premium, with a value of approximately €10,000, remains to be claimed.
The house is close to the centre of the land, approached by a nice, tree-lined avenue of c500m. It’s close to an old farmyard. There is just a four-bay round-roofed hayshed and some older stone-walled, slate-roofed outbuildings. The hayshed needs repainting but is in reasonable condition. The old stone-walled outbuildings are in good condition considering their vintage.
The round-roofed hayshed.
However, the four-bedroom, single-storey house is impressive. It was built within the past 10 years. It is spacious at approximately 2,000ft2 and the rooms are generously sized. The house is bright and clean.
The kitchen is bright and spacious.
The kitchen has large fitted units with pine-coloured cupboards and drawers. These, along with the bright floor tiles, make for a bright cheery kitchen. The sitting room is large and has a solid fuel stove and French doors out to the garden. The main bathroom is modern, clean and bright.
The sitting room has a feature stove and fine French doors to the outside.
The attic was made with a cut roof meaning it is easily accessible for storage use and can be readily converted to living area. It has two velux roof windows. The house has dual heating by oil and solid fuel.
The bathroom is clean and bright.
The large attic has two velux-style windows. It could be converted to living area.
There is a pebble parking area to the front and side of the house. As of yet, little work has been done putting in gardens – they are a blank slate awaiting a new owner. However, there is plenty of potential as the house is on a nice elevated site and there are already some fine mature trees nearby.
The 166ac is in one block and has close to 1km of frontage on the public road.
The online auction takes place on Thursday 3 November at 3pm on the LSL platform. The farm is being sold in one lot.
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