A 97ac farm with good land, a good farmyard and a very nice farmhouse has just come on the market in Co Galway.

Given its size and all round quality, this property will generate a lot of interest.

The farm is just outside Kilconly, in the north of the county. It’s on offer from auctioneers Keane Mahony Smith, by private treaty.

The 92ac home farm is in one block and has some 250m frontage on a public road. Separately, there is also a 5ac bog holding.

The farm is Millburn House, located 3km from Kilconly, in the Ardour area. This put it 16km from Tuam and 50km from Galway city.

Land type

This is an area with good land and good farming.

The holding for sale is made up of 92ac of good-quality land, all in grass, plus 5ac of bog some 5km away.

The 92ac home farm is good-quality land.

The farm is being run as a beef operation by the present owners who also have an interest in pedigree breeding. The 92ac is all in one block and it has some 250m of frontage onto the public road. Water is piped to all fields from a private well. There are good boundary walls and fences, the agents say.

House and yard

The farmhouse and yard are in the centre of the land, set back from the road and accessed by a 500m avenue.

The yard is tidy and well laid out.

The yard has five main sheds, all of modern design and in good condition. There is slatted accommodation for 150 cattle, a walled silage pit, a hay shed with lean-to, a four-bay back-to-back general purpose shed and an original cut stone barn with recently restored loft.

The sheds are modern in design and in good condition.

The two-storey farmhouse is a stand-out feature of this farm. It’s large and in very good condition. It has been tastefully restored and extended over the years and now is 2,900sq ft in area.

The yard has five main sheds, plus a traditional cut-stone shed with loft which is in good condition.

The ground floor has two reception rooms, the first with an open fireplace, the second with a stove and French doors leading to the garden patio.

The house is ready to move into.

The kitchen has an oil-fired Rayburn. There is an office and a utility room. Upstairs there are four bedrooms, two en-suite and all with fitted wardrobes, and a study room.

This is the sitting room.

There are gardens to the front and back of the house, landscaped and with mature shrubs and trees.

The asking price for the farm is in the region of €1.5m.