Berrillstown sells for €2.4 million

Berrillstown, Dunshaughlin, a 157-acre holding outside Dunshaughlin, was sold by Raymond Potterton at auction today, for €2.4 million. The successful bidder was a midlands businessman.
Fully set up for feeding, grazing and housing up to 400 cattle with the utmost of ease, the non-residential farm was been in the ownership of Ballycullen Farms for more than 40 years and had been farmed with pride and to an exceptionally high standard. It is a model farm, well laid out in large level divisions, with each field accessed by a well fenced and surfaced farm roadway providing easy and safe management.
The holding has uninterrupted frontage of 560 metres to the main Dublin/Navan Road (R147/Old N3), and also benefits from frontage to the M3 motorway with an agricultural access road from the motorway.
The lands are of exceptional quality and have been farmed to a very high standard producing top quality beef cattle.It has a great depth of free draining fertile soil, highly productive and suitable for any agricultural or equine enterprise. Currently 50 acres are in barley crop. The remainder in highly productive old pasture. The spring barley crop is included in the sale.
The roadways around the farm are well-fenced with PDM and mesh fencing, and there is a fine stand of beech trees in the centre of the lands, which are well sheltered by forestry and planting. Some relics of aul' decency are visible on the farm, such as the remains of an old centuries old cottage, and a well-designed drinking area for cattle on a stream.
The farmyard is very well laid out with a large range of top quality modern buildings and extensive concreted yards and aprons providing good access and easy turn around for trucks and big machinery.
The yard is close to the main road and very nicely screened by well-maintained hedges and hardwood poplar trees.
Farm buildings include a modern slatted floor shed divided into 18 isolation pens with double sided feeding. All pens are fitted with modern gang slats and the slurry tanks are full size of the slatted shed with central agitation point. The shed has excellent ventilation. An earth embankment and a planted shelter belt to protect the shed from prevailing winds.
The yard also includes twin six bay-barns with double lean-tos, 10 feet high mass concrete silage walls, effluent tank and stock handling facilities, with plenty of storage for feed stuffs such as maize or silage.