A fully equipped and productive dairy farm with winter accommodation for about 750 head of livestock
*Closing date for offers: Noon on Tuesday, 27 September 2022*
Lot 1: Cavandarragh Farm (94.35 Acres)
Farm Buildings
Cavandarragh Yard
Dairy complex-A combination of interconnecting sheds containing the dairy, about 300 cantilever cubicles with mattresses and an additional 70 cubicles used for dray cows with matresses, calving pens, calf shed, handling facilities and ancillary buildings. They are of steel frame construction beneath corrugated roofs with super vent cladding, block walls, central feed passages and slatted bases with automatic scrapers and tanks beneath.
Dairy-Refurbished De Laval 40:40 parlour, rapid-exit, auto ID, electric units, in parlour feed-to-yield and electric milk meters. Loft containing 2 standby electric boilers, 2 water stores with heat pumps and wash down pump, and a gas heater.
Bulk Tank room - With 12,000 litre Dari Kool bulk tank and plate coolers.
Ancillary buildings - Office, WC, kitchen, stores, diesel shed and feed store.
Boiler room and woodchip store - 99kW Lindner Sommerauer boiler, used for heating the hot water for the parlour and woodchip store with roller door.
Workshop - In 3 bays of steel frame construction beneath a corrugated roof with corrugated cladding, concrete walls and concrete floor, up and over roller door. The workshop is also heated by the woodchip boiler.
Silage pits - A pair of uncovered silage pits with concrete walls and concrete floors.
General purpose shed - In 6 bays of steel portal frame construction beneath a corrugated roof with corrugated cladding, concrete walls and concrete floor. Up and over roller door. Includes two wood chip/meal stores and two biomass boilers.
Calf shed - In 6 bays of steel frame construction beneath a corrugated roof with timber cladding on one side, concrete walls, central feed passage and slatted base with tank beneath.
Calf shed - In 3 bays of steel frame construction beneath a corrugated roof with corrugated cladding and block walls.
Twin span cubicle sheds-In 6 and 4 bays of steel frame construction beneath corrugated roofs with corrugated cladding, block walls and a slatted passage with tank beneath.
Various calf sheds and feed store - Stone walls and corrugated roofs.
Farm Services
The farm buildings benefit from a mains electricity supply and a private water supply (via a bore hole), backed up by a mains water supply. There is a diesel-powered generator.
Farmland
Lot 1 extends to about 94.35 acres in total and lies in a contiguous block. A notable feature of the land is the excellent network of internal farm roads and cow tracks, providing convenient access for the dairy herd to all of the land.
General Remarks
Viewing
Strictly by appointment with Savills.
Given the hazards of a working farm, we ask you to be as vigilant as possible when making your inspection, for your own personal safety.
Fixtures & Fittings
The fixed equipment in the workshop is specifically excluded from the sale.
Basic Payment Scheme (BPS)
The Entitlements to the Basic Payment Scheme are owned by the sellers and are included in the sale. The subsidy from the Basic Payment Scheme Entitlements in relation to the 2021 farming year will be retained by the sellers. If the farm is sold in lots, the Entitlements will be apportioned on a pro-rata basis. Further information is available from the joint selling agents.