A large grazing farm with a good cattle and sheep yard is for sale in north Offaly.
This 163ac farm is close to Ballycumber, at Brackagh, and will catch the attention of a lot of drystock, beef and dairy farmers within a 30km radius. It’s being sold by auction by GVM Auctioneers Tullamore.
The farm is in a quiet location, 2km up a cul de sac that branches off the Ballycumber to Rahan L2015 road. Day to day essentials can be got at Ballycumber, 4km away. For bigger shopping it’s 16km to Tullamore. Killbeggan and the M6 motorway are 17km away.
The farm is essentially in one block, albeit not completely. One division is almost 160ac while about 600m away there is a second division of 3.75ac.
The farm has c160ac in one block with a c3.75ac field about 600m up the road.
The land is good-quality and has been very well maintained. It’s laid out in eight main fields. There are good boundary hedges and fencing. The farm has plenty of frontage on the cul de sac, which is public road.
Farmyard
The spacious farmyard is close to the road. The sheds are large but not crowded on top of each other. There is plenty of open concreted area so tractors with machinery, and lorries, have room to load, turn and unload.
This yard has winter accommodation for about 150 cattle – depending on size – between slatted pens and cubicles.
The farm is being offered in four lots. Lot 1 is c36.5ac of good land, with road frontage, laid out in three fields.
The internal farm road.
Lot 2 is c123ac with the farmyard and with road frontage. This lot has an internal gravel road running from the yard out between the fields, giving good access. Most of this 123ac is fenced for sheep.
There are two large sheds in the yard. The main cubicle house is a wide lean-to shed with two passages, four bays long. The cubicles in this shed are in two divisions.
The four-bay shed with slatted tanks on both sides of a centre passage.
In front of this shed is a four-bay slatted shed with feed barriers. Scrapers on the two passages clean down to the slatted tank. This shed has good height to the gutters, spaced roof sheeting over the slatted tank and a ventilation opening over the cubicles, all benefiting animal health.
The cubicle house with slatted shed at front.
On the opposite side of the farmyard there is a modern four-bay A-roofed shed with slatted tanks on both sides of a centre passage. This shed is of modern design with a high roof and a ventilation opening at the ridge, with a rain canopy.
Silage slab
In addition, there is a large silage slab, a four-bay free-standing lean-to shed for storage and a three-bay round roofed hayshed with adjoining lean-to, currently used for hay and straw bales. There is an electricity connection and water supply is from a private well located on the land.
Lot 3 will be lots 1 and 2 combined – c159.5ac with the livestock yard. This lot is being guided at €1.6m.
The yard has a large silage slab and a concreted area for silage bales.
Lot 4 is the c3.75ac on the same road but in the next townland, which is Castletown. This parcel has road frontage, a mains water connection and is currently laid out in grass. It is being guided at €45,000.
This farm is currently used as part of a beef and sheep enterprise. However, it could be easily converted to dairying, according to GVM auctioneer Gordon Cobbe.
This farm will be offered for sale by public auction on Friday 16 June 2023 at 3pm in the Bridge House Hotel, Tullamore.
The auction will also run online on the LSL platform.
A large grazing farm with a good cattle and sheep yard is for sale in north Offaly.
This 163ac farm is close to Ballycumber, at Brackagh, and will catch the attention of a lot of drystock, beef and dairy farmers within a 30km radius. It’s being sold by auction by GVM Auctioneers Tullamore.
The farm is in a quiet location, 2km up a cul de sac that branches off the Ballycumber to Rahan L2015 road. Day to day essentials can be got at Ballycumber, 4km away. For bigger shopping it’s 16km to Tullamore. Killbeggan and the M6 motorway are 17km away.
The farm is essentially in one block, albeit not completely. One division is almost 160ac while about 600m away there is a second division of 3.75ac.
The farm has c160ac in one block with a c3.75ac field about 600m up the road.
The land is good-quality and has been very well maintained. It’s laid out in eight main fields. There are good boundary hedges and fencing. The farm has plenty of frontage on the cul de sac, which is public road.
Farmyard
The spacious farmyard is close to the road. The sheds are large but not crowded on top of each other. There is plenty of open concreted area so tractors with machinery, and lorries, have room to load, turn and unload.
This yard has winter accommodation for about 150 cattle – depending on size – between slatted pens and cubicles.
The farm is being offered in four lots. Lot 1 is c36.5ac of good land, with road frontage, laid out in three fields.
The internal farm road.
Lot 2 is c123ac with the farmyard and with road frontage. This lot has an internal gravel road running from the yard out between the fields, giving good access. Most of this 123ac is fenced for sheep.
There are two large sheds in the yard. The main cubicle house is a wide lean-to shed with two passages, four bays long. The cubicles in this shed are in two divisions.
The four-bay shed with slatted tanks on both sides of a centre passage.
In front of this shed is a four-bay slatted shed with feed barriers. Scrapers on the two passages clean down to the slatted tank. This shed has good height to the gutters, spaced roof sheeting over the slatted tank and a ventilation opening over the cubicles, all benefiting animal health.
The cubicle house with slatted shed at front.
On the opposite side of the farmyard there is a modern four-bay A-roofed shed with slatted tanks on both sides of a centre passage. This shed is of modern design with a high roof and a ventilation opening at the ridge, with a rain canopy.
Silage slab
In addition, there is a large silage slab, a four-bay free-standing lean-to shed for storage and a three-bay round roofed hayshed with adjoining lean-to, currently used for hay and straw bales. There is an electricity connection and water supply is from a private well located on the land.
Lot 3 will be lots 1 and 2 combined – c159.5ac with the livestock yard. This lot is being guided at €1.6m.
The yard has a large silage slab and a concreted area for silage bales.
Lot 4 is the c3.75ac on the same road but in the next townland, which is Castletown. This parcel has road frontage, a mains water connection and is currently laid out in grass. It is being guided at €45,000.
This farm is currently used as part of a beef and sheep enterprise. However, it could be easily converted to dairying, according to GVM auctioneer Gordon Cobbe.
This farm will be offered for sale by public auction on Friday 16 June 2023 at 3pm in the Bridge House Hotel, Tullamore.
The auction will also run online on the LSL platform.
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