It’s nice to have a little bit of history on your farm. Not so much that there are lines of day trippers with cars, dogs and buggies, but enough to make a talking point for visitors and family friends.

This 45.5ac residential farm on the edge of Fethard in Co Tipperary will do nicely. It’s in the townland of Crampscastle and it has the ruins of a medieval tower, dating as far back as the 1300s. It’s also a very tidy farm with clean land, a spic and span yard, a good cattle handling yard down the fields and a lovely, bright house.

The farm is in a good location, out the Cloneen road, the R692, just 500m from the edge of the town. It’s for sale with REA Stokes and Quirke by private treaty, in an executors’ sale. The guide price is excess of €750,000.

The farm is laid out in one block and has about 800m of frontage on the Cloneen Road. It is bounded on one side by the River Clashawley.

With views of Slievenamon, the property is described as a good cattle-fattening farm, with highly productive soil.

Same entrace

The house dates back to the 1950s but has been modernised and upgraded.

The house and farmyard are accessed by the same entrance. It then splits as the house and yard are a short distance apart. The house was likely built in the 1950s and was originally a three bedroomed cottage.

It has been upgraded and modernised and is now laid out with two spacious bedrooms. While compact, it is well maintained and in nice condition.

The kitchen has hardwood timber flooring, a tiled backsplash, storage units at eye and floor level and a timber ceiling. The sitting room has a striking, high ceiling – termed a cathedral ceiling – as well as timber flooring and a solid fuel stove with a brick surround.

The first bedroom is on the ground floor. It has a hardwood timber floor and windows overlooking the garden. The second bedroom is upstairs and has exposed roof beams. Outside the house there is a lawn area and trees, giving peace and privacy.

The farmyard is about 80m back from the house.

The main shed is three-bay and round roofed with lean-to on each side. It is in good condition. Outside there is a clean hardcore area.

Old tower house

This is the main farmyard.

Down the fields in the direction of the town, and close to the road, there is a useful cattle handling unit. It has a chute with a catwalk, headgate, pens, dividing gates and an isolation shed.

The old tower house is believed to have been used by the Earls of Osmond as an old courthouse up to 1621.

Now cattle graze peacefully under it.