{"id":394700,"date":"2026-04-12T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394700\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T12:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:34:09","slug":"residential-farm-extending-to-46-acres-in-county-limerick-sells-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394700\/","title":{"rendered":"Residential farm extending to 46 acres in County Limerick sells at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUCTIONEER Richard Ryan was the man with the gavel at the sale of a 46 acre residential roadside farm at Ballyvologue, Ballingarry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It took place in GVM\u2019s auction room in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/751\/farming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kilmallock Mart<\/a>. The property was described by GVM\u2019s Mr Ryan as a \u201csuperb south facing Golden Vale holding with excellent quality permanent pasture, laid out in well-sheltered rolling fields with extensive road frontage\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Farm buildings included two haybarns, cubicle house, silage apron, cattle pen and crush. A three-bedroom bungalow is vacant and requires refurbishment.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/2056976\/dairy-farmer-wins-the-day-at-multimillion-euro-auction-of-210-acre-limerick-farm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dairy farmer wins the day at multimillion-euro auction of 210 acre Limerick farm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bids came from both in house and through the online LSL facility with an opening bid of \u20ac650,000 from the floor. Mr Ryan had a relatively easy job to arrive at \u20ac820,000.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief recess the property was placed on the market. Mr Ryan dropped his gavel a few minutes later at \u20ac820,000 in favour of the in house bidder West Limerick-based estate agent Pat O\u2019Donovan, who was believed to have been representing a local farming family.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting after the auction, Mr Ryan said that it was a property that offered great potential given that there was an existing residence and it was well-situated within close proximity to Ballingarry and Croom. He was satisfied with the price achieved which was in line with the vendors\u2019 expectations.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUCTIONEER Richard Ryan was the man with the gavel at the sale of a 46 acre residential roadside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[108512,72,2177,27127,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-394700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-ballingarry","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-county-limerick","11":"tag-farming","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}