Best Land in Ireland

marc_faber

MFdaveIreland wrote: »

Hi folks, someone made a comment about where British went first, I always thought the same, if you look where large estates are to this day you will fond some of the finest land,


Imo, Carrick on suir area was good to my memory as well as west cork, county down strangford Lough veg and tillage country, but with most coastal areas quite dry and sandy in places,

Louth supposed to be great land, but I always heard Meath being the best land in Ireland, serious field sizes and soil types

the british were always going to chose land close to a main port so slap bang in the middle of the country was out , the pale was the obvious choice , near the capital

Base price

darragh_haven wrote: »

Louth meath border area. Large area of kilkenny. East cork. But this all depends on a persons parameters used for identifying "best land"

Agree.
I knew of "market gardeners" around Rush, Lusk and Skerries making more money per acre on small areas of land than large dairy/beef enterprises were making.

Conmaicne Mara

bogman_bass wrote: »

If I knew you were on my land I'd have asked you in for tea Con!

We were pulling up to one field and I asked the lads where would I park? Oh just pull up onto the verge they said :eek: If you did that down my way you'd either sink or be beached up on a rock :pac: Got revenge in first by sending one of them out on some quaking bog to find a fox down here, never saw a face with less blood in it coming off it

micraX

Base price wrote: »

Agree.
I knew of "market gardeners" around Rush, Lusk and Skerries making more money per acre on small areas of land than large dairy/beef enterprises were making.

that is the best land in the country, sure look on google maps behind the main street in rush, all the topsoil/sand that was removed about ten years ago for building but nothing was build was all leveled out in the last few years to bring in back to agriculture.

liamv90

hard to beat a winterage in the burren co clare.

Conor556

The golden vale in tipp,, areas like golden, cashel, and new inn,, im working out there now and alot of big tillage and dairy farms around, since I started in early february ground has been able to handle 3000 gallon slurry tanks without damage except a bit around the gaps, granted i havnt seen alot of the areas ye have been talking about but is certanly the best that ive seen

Miname

A lot is down to the way its mantained. theres land in every county thats a credit to the lads farming it. the best ground in the country is the bit that makes you happy and hopefully a few quid. Like everything in life its just maybe suited to different things, whether that be views, dairying or even forestry.

tomwaterford

liamv90 wrote: »

hard to beat a winterage in the burren co clare.

for hardship???:pac:

GrandSoftDay

liamv90 wrote: »

hard to beat a winterage in the burren co clare.

A god forsaken place, Did you never hear what Cromwell said about it

Conmaicne Mara

tomwaterford wrote: »

for hardship???:pac:

Hah, the Burren isn't hardship, if you want to see that I can show you plenty

liamv90

Cromwell wasn't a farmer, not many people can run a suckler herd without making or feeding a bale of silage.

GrandSoftDay

liamv90 wrote: »

Cromwell wasn't a farmer, not many people can run a suckler herd without making or feeding a bale of silage.

Will you give me 10k an acre for my winterage so

Dickie10

cromwell was actually a farmer from bedfordshire i think. st.albans or sumwhere

Dickie10

huntington

onyerbikepat

Dickie10 wrote: »

cromwell was actually a farmer from bedfordshire i think. st.albans or sumwhere

Suckler or Dairy? Maybe tillage? :rolleyes:

Blackgrass

onyerbikepat wrote: »

Suckler or Dairy? Maybe tillage? :rolleyes:

/CambridgeshireBedfordshire is known as the wheat basket

liamv90

yeah he would have been well out of his dept in north clare

severeoversteer

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

A god forsaken place, Did you never hear what Cromwell said about it

not a tree to hang a man, nor water enough to drown a man, nor soil enough to bury a man !!

that's the burren

fairly sums it up

Limestone Cowboy

severeoversteer wrote: »

not a tree to hang a man, nor water enough to drown a man, nor soil enough to bury a man !!

that's the burren

fairly sums it up

He also said the cows were very fat .
In the Memoirs of Ludlow, the Cromwellian general, the following account of the Burren is given: “ We entered the Barony of Burren, of which it is said that it is a country where there is not water enough to drown a man, wood enough to hang one, nor earth enough to bury him, which last is so scarce that the inhabitants steal it from one another; and yet their cattle are very fat; for the grass growing in tufts of earth of two or three feet square that lie between the rocks is very sweet and nourishing.

Figerty

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

He also said the cows were very fat .
In the Memoirs of Ludlow, the Cromwellian general, the following account of the Burren is given: “ We entered the Barony of Burren, of which it is said that it is a country where there is not water enough to drown a man, wood enough to hang one, nor earth enough to bury him, which last is so scarce that the inhabitants steal it from one another; and yet their cattle are very fat; for the grass growing in tufts of earth of two or three feet square that lie between the rocks is very sweet and nourishing.

That didn't stop Ludlow doing a lot of damage all the same!