A nice 97ac residential farm with cattle yard has come on the market in south Co Longford – with a guide price of €900,000.

It’s at Agharra, Carrickboy, and it will be sold at auction by James L Murtagh Auctioneers on Thursday 17 December.

The farmyard is located beside the house but is screened off from the house.

The farm is in one block, located on the R393 main road, on the border of counties Longford and Westmeath.

It’s a good central location: Ballymahon is 11km away, Longford 20km and Edgeworthstown 16km.

The house is three bedroom and in good condition.

The farm will be offered in two lots. Lot 1 will be the house on approximately 0.6ac.

The farmyard has cattle accommodation and handling facilities.

Lot 2 will be the 97ac with yard and lot 3 the entire.

The farm includes 75ac of good-quality elevated land all in grass, plus the balance of 22ac which his in forestry.

The grassland is elevated and good quality.

The grassland was in tillage in recent years and was reseeded over the past 10 years.

The grassland is laid out in 11 grazing fields.

It is laid out in 11 grazing paddocks with good boundary fencing. There is water to all divisions and the land has road frontage.

The forestry ground is planted with mostly Norway Spruce. It was planted in 1996 – all premium is gone, but it will be coming up for thinning in the years ahead.

The farmyard has a three-bay double-slatted shed with adjoining three-bay hay shed, three-bay dry bedded shed with calving facilities, three-bay double dry bedded shed.

There is an indoor cattle handling crush, a round-roofed lambing shed and a number of other storage buildings.

The house is single storey, with three bedrooms and is in good condition, although it would benefit from some modernisation.

The house on 0.6ac is being guided by Murtaghs at €100,000. The land and farmyard is guided at €800,000 and the entire at €900,000.

The auction will take place outdoors, in the car park of the Greville Arms Hotel, unless the farm is previously sold.