A large block of Kilkenny’s finest farmland along with an equally fine period house has come on the market. Kilree House, situated in the townland of the same name, is being sold by Savills by private treaty with a guide price of €7.75m. This is a property that will meet plenty of interest, even if that guide price puts it out of range for most of us.
The front entrance with lovely limestone - probably from local quarries.
The driveway is close to 1km long.
There are many positives here. First, this big holding is all in one block. That’s key for those deep-pocket buyers looking for a premium family home and for whom privacy and space are important. It makes the property more valuable and viable from a commercial and farming viewpoint.
It’s well located. Kilkenny City is 7km to the north, junction 9 of the M9 motorway is just 5km to the south. The property is in a great farming area and has some of the best land in Kilkenny, which is saying something.
The house is set among mature trees. One of the four farmyard can be seen nearby.
The main entrance features very nice limestone piers and walls and iron gates leading to a gravel driveway flanked with fine matures trees. The driveway is close to 1km long. There is a second entrance at the rear from the Bennettsbridge Road.
The estate consists of 468ac of pasture and tillage land. There is 48ac of woodland and 19ac under yards, buildings and roads.
This is some of the best land in the county.
The land is let out on a long-term lease to a Co Kilkenny farmer and run as a dairy unit – to a very high standard. The land has been very well maintained. Pastures have been reseeded on a rotational basis and are clean and high-yielding. This lease runs to 2027.
The farm was previously in tillage. Fields are large and of regular shape.
There are excellent internal farm roads.
The fields are large and of regular shape, well suited for machinery and for silage. A system of internal farm roads run through the land. Many of the fields are set up in paddocks. The farm is also well suited to cereals and other crops – this was run as a tillage farm before the conversion to milk.
The land is now leased out and run as a dairy operation.
Woodland
The woodland has a combination of mature deciduous species, mainly laid out in shelter belts or small copses, and younger plantations of mixed species. The estate is entered in a woodland grant scheme – further details on this are available from Savills.
One of the four yards.
The holding has extensive farm buildings laid out in four yards. The main yard has an eight-bay grain store with underfloor air tunnels, along with various other storage sheds. The other yards have livestock sheds.
One of these yards is the dairy operation. The fixed equipment there is owned by the tenant and is excluded from the sale. Again, further detail is available from Savills.
House
Finally, the house at Kilree is stately and in very good condition.
One of the two formal reception rooms on the ground floor.
It dates back to the early 1800s and is described as three-bay, two-storeys over a raised garden floor. It is certainly large at 6,603ft2 (613.44m2) – but is still very utilisable as a family home.
At the front there are two flights of stone steps and two front doors, on either side of a gabled breakfront. There are ornate cobweb fanlights over the two front doors.
The front porch leads to the large hall which gives access to two large, formal reception rooms, plus the kitchen, a study and a shower room.
A reception room.
There are six bedrooms on the first floor, two of them en-suite, along with a family bathroom. The garden level floor has a laundry room, fuel room, kitchens, a shower room and various storage rooms.
The house has six bedrooms, all on the first floor.
Notable internal period features include sash and case windows, shutters, ceiling roses and cornicing, decorative mantelpieces and architraves.
The house has a modern six-camera CCTV system, broadband internet and oil heating.
A large block of Kilkenny’s finest farmland along with an equally fine period house has come on the market. Kilree House, situated in the townland of the same name, is being sold by Savills by private treaty with a guide price of €7.75m. This is a property that will meet plenty of interest, even if that guide price puts it out of range for most of us.
The front entrance with lovely limestone - probably from local quarries.
The driveway is close to 1km long.
There are many positives here. First, this big holding is all in one block. That’s key for those deep-pocket buyers looking for a premium family home and for whom privacy and space are important. It makes the property more valuable and viable from a commercial and farming viewpoint.
It’s well located. Kilkenny City is 7km to the north, junction 9 of the M9 motorway is just 5km to the south. The property is in a great farming area and has some of the best land in Kilkenny, which is saying something.
The house is set among mature trees. One of the four farmyard can be seen nearby.
The main entrance features very nice limestone piers and walls and iron gates leading to a gravel driveway flanked with fine matures trees. The driveway is close to 1km long. There is a second entrance at the rear from the Bennettsbridge Road.
The estate consists of 468ac of pasture and tillage land. There is 48ac of woodland and 19ac under yards, buildings and roads.
This is some of the best land in the county.
The land is let out on a long-term lease to a Co Kilkenny farmer and run as a dairy unit – to a very high standard. The land has been very well maintained. Pastures have been reseeded on a rotational basis and are clean and high-yielding. This lease runs to 2027.
The farm was previously in tillage. Fields are large and of regular shape.
There are excellent internal farm roads.
The fields are large and of regular shape, well suited for machinery and for silage. A system of internal farm roads run through the land. Many of the fields are set up in paddocks. The farm is also well suited to cereals and other crops – this was run as a tillage farm before the conversion to milk.
The land is now leased out and run as a dairy operation.
Woodland
The woodland has a combination of mature deciduous species, mainly laid out in shelter belts or small copses, and younger plantations of mixed species. The estate is entered in a woodland grant scheme – further details on this are available from Savills.
One of the four yards.
The holding has extensive farm buildings laid out in four yards. The main yard has an eight-bay grain store with underfloor air tunnels, along with various other storage sheds. The other yards have livestock sheds.
One of these yards is the dairy operation. The fixed equipment there is owned by the tenant and is excluded from the sale. Again, further detail is available from Savills.
House
Finally, the house at Kilree is stately and in very good condition.
One of the two formal reception rooms on the ground floor.
It dates back to the early 1800s and is described as three-bay, two-storeys over a raised garden floor. It is certainly large at 6,603ft2 (613.44m2) – but is still very utilisable as a family home.
At the front there are two flights of stone steps and two front doors, on either side of a gabled breakfront. There are ornate cobweb fanlights over the two front doors.
The front porch leads to the large hall which gives access to two large, formal reception rooms, plus the kitchen, a study and a shower room.
A reception room.
There are six bedrooms on the first floor, two of them en-suite, along with a family bathroom. The garden level floor has a laundry room, fuel room, kitchens, a shower room and various storage rooms.
The house has six bedrooms, all on the first floor.
Notable internal period features include sash and case windows, shutters, ceiling roses and cornicing, decorative mantelpieces and architraves.
The house has a modern six-camera CCTV system, broadband internet and oil heating.
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