From January through to December, it’s been a bumper year for farm sales – here are a dozen interesting properties from the last 12 months

August saw 185ac dairy farm Island Dairies between Dromore and Lurgan in Co Down come to the market with a guide price of €7.57m

The Christmas break provides a good opportunity to look back at the farm sales of 2024 and select the places and the sales that stood out for each month of the year.

Let me warn you that it is a completely subjective exercise and aside from my personal taste there are sectoral and geographic considerations to be taken into account.