The average price paid for an acre of non-residential land sold solely for the purposes of agriculture was €9,716 in 2024, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has reported.
The CSO released data which looked at the prices attached to 3,280 separate land transactions as it attempted to set aside all non-farming land sales from the sale prices it reported on farmland that changed hands last year.
The figures put tillage lands at a significantly higher average price than grassland at €20,517/ac in comparison to €9,057/ac.
The highest average price land sold by region was the €30,524/ac agricultural lands made in Dublin, with the next-highest priced region being the southeast at €15,391/ac.
The CSO prices reported exclude sales data for transactions regarding land sold with an attached dwelling, commonage or sales concerning land sold for less than €4,000/ac or more than €25,000/ac.
The CSO’s report accounts for 475ac sold in the Dublin region, with 4,517ac accounted for in the southeast data.
Land in the border region went for the lowest average value at €5,857/ac, closely followed by the west at €6,127/ac.
The west was the region which saw the highest total number of agricultural land transactions as 838 individual sales were reported across an average area of 15ac per transaction.
The largest average area traded in individual agricultural land transactions were those in Dublin at 20ac, although other regions were close behind on this metric.
The midland region’s average came to €10,535/ac, €14,320/ac in the mideast, €10,288/ac in the midwest and €11,031/ac in the southwest.
Lands sold with direct payment entitlements and those bought by lifestyle buyers, for development, or those which had been identified as suitable for forestry are also being excluded. The breakdown of the counties comprising each region reported by the CSO is as follows:
Border region – Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan and Sligo.Dublin – Co Dublin.The mideast region – Kildare, Louth, Meath and Wicklow.The midlands – Laois, Longford, Offaly and Westmeath.The midwest – Clare, Limerick, and Tipperary.The southeast – Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford and Wexford.The southwest – Cork and Kerry.The west – Galway, Mayo and Roscommon.
The average price paid for an acre of non-residential land sold solely for the purposes of agriculture was €9,716 in 2024, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has reported.
The CSO released data which looked at the prices attached to 3,280 separate land transactions as it attempted to set aside all non-farming land sales from the sale prices it reported on farmland that changed hands last year.
The figures put tillage lands at a significantly higher average price than grassland at €20,517/ac in comparison to €9,057/ac.
The highest average price land sold by region was the €30,524/ac agricultural lands made in Dublin, with the next-highest priced region being the southeast at €15,391/ac.
The CSO prices reported exclude sales data for transactions regarding land sold with an attached dwelling, commonage or sales concerning land sold for less than €4,000/ac or more than €25,000/ac.
The CSO’s report accounts for 475ac sold in the Dublin region, with 4,517ac accounted for in the southeast data.
Land in the border region went for the lowest average value at €5,857/ac, closely followed by the west at €6,127/ac.
The west was the region which saw the highest total number of agricultural land transactions as 838 individual sales were reported across an average area of 15ac per transaction.
The largest average area traded in individual agricultural land transactions were those in Dublin at 20ac, although other regions were close behind on this metric.
The midland region’s average came to €10,535/ac, €14,320/ac in the mideast, €10,288/ac in the midwest and €11,031/ac in the southwest.
Lands sold with direct payment entitlements and those bought by lifestyle buyers, for development, or those which had been identified as suitable for forestry are also being excluded. The breakdown of the counties comprising each region reported by the CSO is as follows:
Border region – Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan and Sligo.Dublin – Co Dublin.The mideast region – Kildare, Louth, Meath and Wicklow.The midlands – Laois, Longford, Offaly and Westmeath.The midwest – Clare, Limerick, and Tipperary.The southeast – Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford and Wexford.The southwest – Cork and Kerry.The west – Galway, Mayo and Roscommon. 
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