69ac holding in ‘sleepy corner’ of West Cork guided at €1.2m

Farm in area renowned for goods land comes with farmhouse in need of renovation, range of outbuildings and frontage onto two roads

This 68.7ac residential farm at Coolcullitha, near Inishannon in West Cork is guided at €1.2 to €1.3m

Jim O'Brien

Most farms coming to the Irish property market are the subject of executor sales. In their heyday many of these places would have been regarded as solid, substantial farms capable of giving a fine living to their owners and their families.

A 68.7ac residential farm at a place called Coolcullitha near Inishannon in Co Cork is one such spot, a fine farm of land set out in a patchwork 17 small fields bounded by rich hedgerows.