A big block of Golden Vale land with a large cattle yard but no house – now that’s the kind of property to catch the attention of busy farmers. This 90.75ac farm is for sale near Kilmallock, Co Limerick. It’s at Ballingaddy and is being sold by GVM Property. It’s going for auction this month and the guide price is €15,000/ac.
The farmyard is located just 2km out from Kilmallock, on the L8574. There’s a cross nearby and as a result the land also fronts on to a second local road, the L1535. In all the farm has approximately 1km of road frontage.
It’s a good all-round location, 11km from Charleville and the N20, 28km from Mitchelstown and 36km from Limerick city. Of course, it’s also a very good farming area with a lot of dairying and beef.
Most importantly the farm is in one block and it’s a good regular shape. It’s divided into seven main fields, all relatively large and square shaped and with straight boundaries. They’re straightforward fields in which to work machines.
Positive
Another positive is that the farmyard is quite centrally located on the land. It’s also close to the roadside, set back about 70m and accessed via a wide entrance with locking gates and a stone surfaced laneway. A farm road then runs on out from the yard through the fields giving good access.
The land is in permanent pasture. It has been well minded and is in good condition. There are good boundary hedges. Water supply to the farm is from a well and supply is piped out to the fields and there are troughs.
The yard is well set up. There are four large sheds plus a small building which is set up as a canteen with a toilet.
Sheds
The biggest shed consists of two round roofed sheds running side by side for eight bays, with lean-to on each side. Under the round roofs are two silage pits, with mass concrete walls. Alongside, in each lean-to, there are cubicles for about 100 head of stock.
At the end of this shed, and next largest, is a more modern slatted unit, over five bays, with centre feed passage, sliding end doors, apex ventilation opening and a feed silo outside.
At the other end of the yard there is a large machinery/store shed and a round roofed former milking parlour/dairy. The machinery shed is six bays with an A-roof and sliding doors along one side, ensuring good security. The former dairy is used as a calf shed. There is an open slurry pit and silage apron and a cattle crush. The yard has mains electricity.
These various sheds were built in the late 1970s and in the 1980s. They were built to a high specification and were well maintained over the years. They are now in good working condition. There is also sizeable areas of open concrete between the buildings. “Everything done on this farm was done right,” auctioneer Richard Ryan said.
The auction takes place at Kilmallock Mart on Friday 20 October at 3pm. The proceeding will also run online on LSL.
