Rathbride, Curragh, Co Kildare (206 acres)
Guide price: €5,750,000
STEVE Parkin, owner of this year’s Irish 1000 Guineas winner Fallen Angel, has placed his 206-acre Curragh equestrian property on the market.
Located at Rathbride, just off the Curragh plains, the property has a guide price of €5.75 million and the sale is being handled by Coonan Property.
Parkin bought the land in 2019 with a view to keeping breeding stock there for his Clipper Logistics racing operation. However, the owner-breeder also owns stud farms in Yorkshire and Newmarket and appears to be scaling back his Irish interests.
The property is accessed via a quiet road just off the R415 Kildare/Milltown Road near the Rathbride Junction. The lands rise gently from the entrance gates continuously to the rear of the farm, resulting in the majority of the farm having a south-easterly aspect with spectacular views over the Curragh plains to the Dublin Mountains.
This modern stud farm with a recently reseeded pasture is laid out into 19 stud-railed paddocks, all of which are served by six-metre-wide gravel roads running from the very front of the farm to the rear. The road network is set back almost two metres from the beech hedging and stud railing. There is approx. 9.5 acres of forestry on the northeastern boundary of the farm.
The first yard, located nearest to the entrance, is home to two separate American barns, a six-bay L-shaped hay shed, two lunging rings, as well as a horse walker, loading bay and a staff carpark.
Both barns are of similar steel-framed construction, finished with non-drip sheeting and concrete block walls boasting c.15% Perspex sheeting in the roof and 70% on the large entrance doors.
The first barn is built as a H-block and provides 38 loose boxes with a mare inspection room including plentiful storage, staff canteen and bathroom facilities accommodated in the central block.
The second barn provides a further eight loose boxes with even more natural light and both barns are fitted with excellent ventilation.
Immediately behind the first yard lies three turn-out paddocks that are all keep-safe railed and are of fibre and woodchip laid over a tarmac base. A further five small convenient paddocks adjoin and surround the yard.
A multi-purpose yard and four-bay shed stands towards the centre of the farm are ideal for an isolation block and is convenient to the main body of the farm.
All divisions and yards, as well as the house are served by water from the farm’s own well.
Agent: Coonan Property and Raymond Potterton
Contact: Will Coonan (01 628 6128) or Stephen Barry (046 9027666)