Limerick land?

Dickie10

just wondering what type of land is there in limerick? never know how to categorise it, seems to always look a bit low lying or something , as if it cant take much water at all, just wondering what is it really like? why is there so little sheep in limerick also?

Shannon757

I live in Limerick and the land around my house gets flooded a lot of the time. 6ft of water last water. I think it's better in West Limerick.

White Clover

Shannon757 wrote: »

I live in Limerick and the land around my house gets flooded a lot of the time. 6ft of water last water. I think it's better in West Limerick.

You need to do a tour of your own county! Very poor land In a lot of west limerick. Some exceptional land in other parts. Great land around Kilmallock croom, bruff, hospital, askeaton, adare and other areas.
Someone from limerick will add more places.

Green farmer

White Clover wrote: »

[quote="Shannon757;1019
You need to do a tour of your own county! Very poor land In a lot of west limerick. Some exceptional land in other parts. Great land around Kilmallock croom, bruff, hospital, askeaton, adare and other areas.
Someone from limerick will add more places.

All depends on what part really as it's a big county. There is some good land around Limerick. maybe that's why sheep farming ain't too popular. dairy and beef are dominant. Limerick has the least amount of sheep of any county. Doesn't help that there's no sheep mart or factory nearby.

I said

Did ya ever see the film Angela's ashes.
Always raining in Limerick

Green farmer

in fairness no part of Ireland is exempt from the rain

cute geoge

Being from Kerry i really envy the land in limerick ,there is a real oversupply of mighty land there and a share of it only extensively farmed.Some kerry lads have moved up there and i would consider they are not sorry the best of it must surely be around croom ,rathkeale,ballingarry the land in asketon would be limestone and burn up easily.What bit of good land is in kerry ,there must be 10 times that in limerick

Green farmer

Shir ain't parts of limerick in the "golden vale" the land quality is so good

Sam Kade

White Clover wrote: »

You need to do a tour of your own county! Very poor land In a lot of west limerick. Some exceptional land in other parts. Great land around Kilmallock croom, bruff, hospital, askeaton, adare and other areas.
Someone from limerick will add more places.

I was viewing a house on the way into Killmallock from Charleville one time, it had 2 acres at the back and was a pure swamp.

White Clover

Sam Kade wrote: »

I was viewing a house on the way into Killmallock from Charleville one time, it had 2 acres at the back and was a pure swamp.

Shur you'll find a vein of bad land every so often. We even have them in our own county!

patsy_mccabe

Land type very mixed in limerick. Like everywhere in Ireland I suppose. For every hill you have to have a hollow, I suppose. To me adare would have the best.

welton john

Land is very mixed in limerick , trust me! The further west you go towards Kerry north cork area the more forestry/bog you will encounter, some of our place is very poor black ground and half a mile away we have land as good as any in the country. That's probably like every county really just a little more extreme. Down clarina/patrickswell area is prob the best I know of

ganmo

Green farmer wrote: »

White Clover wrote: »

All depends on what part really as it's a big county. There is some good land around Limerick. maybe that's why sheep farming ain't too popular. dairy and beef are dominant. Limerick has the least amount of sheep of any county. Doesn't help that there's no sheep mart or factory nearby.

In fairness the mart issue is a bit of a chicken and egg question. If there were enough sheep around the marts wouldn't be long copping on.

The sheep thing in limerick has puzzled me for a while and I've not came up with any kind of explanation...other than limerick ppl not liking hard work

Sam Kade

White Clover wrote: »

Shur you'll find a vein of bad land every so often. We even have them in our own county!

Indeed, there's a vein of bad land running from mallow to doneraile and the land either side of it is prime tillage land.

Cavanjack

Sam Kade wrote: »

Indeed, there's a vein of bad land running from mallow to doneraile and the land either side of it is prime tillage land.

The ice age has a lot to answer for

welton john

ganmo wrote: »

[quote="Green

The sheep thing in limerick has puzzled me for a while and I've not came up with any kind of explanation...other than limerick ppl not liking hard work

Not that , were just well stocked with women

patsy_mccabe

Some great land around Crecora too.

milligan2

beautifull land around Adare with well kept stone walls and hedges.It seems to be hobby farmers that own it as most places have bullocks running freely.If they had that land in Cork it would be peppered with Holsteins!

tractorporn

Dickie10 wrote:

just wondering what type of land is there in limerick? never know how to categorise it, seems to always look a bit low lying or something , as if it cant take much water at all, just wondering what is it really like? why is there so little sheep in limerick also?

Did a good bit of work this year in Limerick there is some of the finest land in the country from Limerick city down as far as Kilmallock and over west as far as Rathkeale and Adare but go further west to the likes of Athea or Knockdown and it gets very heavy and wet.

High bike

Green farmer wrote: »

Shir ain't parts of limerick in the "golden vale" the land quality is so good

correct Green Farmer sure I went for a walk down the fields the other day and when I came home I had to scrape the butter off the boots😂

Justjens

Cavanjack wrote: »

The ice age has a lot to answer for

And it carved out a fine valley here just outside Herbertstown 10 miles S of the city, my land goes from the Camogue river up about 200'.

West Limerick is highish and wet (plenty of forestry), central is flat and mostly free draining (stop at the top of Barna Hill S of Newcastlewest and look N, then you'll know what flat is, you'll have a fine view as far as the Shannon!) and the East is hillier with the worst/wetest land close to the Tipp border (more forestry).

I have the best of both worlds, fields down to the river in a dry year and the grass is hard to keep down (2014) and in a wet year (2012) the hill is fine and dry, and even has cattle grazing there now, hopefully for another two weeks.

Surrounded by dairy farmers, this is grass country, I'm the only beef finisher to add a bit of colour to the landscape:D

Green farmer

ganmo wrote: »

[quI've not came up with any kind of explanation...other than limerick ppl not liking hard work

Ah, if you looked hard enough you'll find the odd hard working sheep farmer, we're just not easily spotted between the fields of black and white cattle.😀

degetme

Farming in south limerick. Mix of good and bad land. Lots of heights and hollows. All dairy or beef.

kevthegaff

Justjens wrote:

West Limerick is highish and wet (plenty of forestry), central is flat and mostly free draining (stop at the top of Barna Hill S of Newcastlewest and look N, then you'll know what flat is, you'll have a fine view as far as the Shannon!) and the East is hillier with the worst/wetest land close to the Tipp border (more forestry).

Are u in Newcastle west? Lots of relations there

I said

High bike wrote: »

correct Green Farmer sure I went for a walk down the fields the other day and when I came home I had to scrape the butter off the boots😂

Great land for beagles 😂😂😂😂😂

High bike

I said wrote: »

Great land for beagles 😂😂😂😂😂

wouldnt let one of them inside the gate ,wouldn't mind though if Clare's rocket came for a hunt😜

I said

High bike wrote: »

wouldnt let one of them inside the gate ,wouldn't mind though if Clare's rocket came for a hunt😜

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Dickie10

thanks lads i often wonder at some counties land type, i might see a bit from out the car window but thats never really enough. i see from google earth the borders of the county are nearly all mountains, and the middle is flatter. sheep or moreso thier lambs dont seem to thrive really well unless you have just the right mix of land, not too dry and not too wet along with other minerals that occur naturally in the land. maybe a wettish bit of land would be very fluke prone, fluke are very hard on sheep. kildare seems to have a lot of sheep and some areas of meath on the kildare border. but for such good land they dont seem to bother going into dairy in a big way like they do in cork

Carrigogunnell

Your right there's very little sheep why i dont know i would think tho its maybe to do with we are a relative small tillage county and a lot of land in bettween not the best for dairy but good summer grazing to carry cattle. My ponit about the tillage od cover crops are usually grazed with sheep.
My own opinion there serious land in limerick and is a serious cow county best land imo is croom ballingarry adare area seem to be all good dry land.
West limerick is fairly poor being honest it nearly starts in Newcastle West even tho there a few big dairy lads around there they would have long winters.

kerry cow

Bad land starts in barna and runs all over kerry . Really don't know how there a kerry cow at all .

Dickie10

i was in hospital yesterday at a camoige match. i thought the land from tipp border to outskirts of limerick city was good enough, but once we went out the tipperary road and tuned right for hospital i thought the land got seriously bad. it looks like an area that suffers from late springs it must be because of that land is to the west of big mountains, im not sure which mountains they were but they had snow on them! the countryside looked very bleak too, there wasnt the proliferation of one off houses all along the road that were used to in south meath. i have to say really enjoyed the views though! defenitly a different world to where i am on the plains. i can see now why there are such appeals over the crisis of rural ireland after my trip. living in the commuter belt we might be still rural folk but its a hundred miles (more if speaking literally) to where i was yesterday.

ps this is not a dig at Limerick just some ramblings

degetme

Dickie10 wrote: »

i was in hospital yesterday at a camoige match. i thought the land from tipp border to outskirts of limerick city was good enough, but once we went out the tipperary road and tuned right for hospital i thought the land got seriously bad. it looks like an area that suffers from late springs it must be because of that land is to the west of big mountains, im not sure which mountains they were but they had snow on them! the countryside looked very bleak too, there wasnt the proliferation of one off houses all along the road that were used to in south meath. i have to say really enjoyed the views though! defenitly a different world to where i am on the plains. i can see now why there are such appeals over the crisis of rural ireland after my trip. living in the commuter belt we might be still rural folk but its a hundred miles (more if speaking literally) to where i was yesterday.

ps this is not a dig at Limerick just some ramblings

galtee mountains you were looking at. you should see the snow on them this morning

einn32

Dickie10 wrote: »

i was in hospital yesterday at a camoige match. i thought the land from tipp border to outskirts of limerick city was good enough, but once we went out the tipperary road and tuned right for hospital i thought the land got seriously bad. it looks like an area that suffers from late springs it must be because of that land is to the west of big mountains, im not sure which mountains they were but they had snow on them! the countryside looked very bleak too, there wasnt the proliferation of one off houses all along the road that were used to in south meath. i have to say really enjoyed the views though! defenitly a different world to where i am on the plains. i can see now why there are such appeals over the crisis of rural ireland after my trip. living in the commuter belt we might be still rural folk but its a hundred miles (more if speaking literally) to where i was yesterday.

ps this is not a dig at Limerick just some ramblings

They are the Galtee mountains. There is some pockets of land around Hospital that are good quality but you have to head towards North Cork to start hitting good well draining land. It's an underestimated part of the world! When you go up the motorway from Limerick to Dublin it does open your eyes to good quality land.

Green farmer

Dickie10 wrote: »

i was in hospital yesterday at a camoige match. i thought the land from tipp border to outskirts of limerick city was good enough, but once we went out the tipperary road and tuned right for hospital i thought the land got seriously bad.

ps this is not a dig at Limerick just some ramblings

Was that caherconlish you went through, some low land on the hospital side of it. Also some nice quality land there as well.

Dickie10

yeah went through that place, if they only cut the grass on hospital pitch we would have won!!!

kerry cow

There's a big 2500 cattle fattening unit with 180 acre field attached in hospital for sale , so can't be too bad around there

einn32

kerry cow wrote: »

There's a big 2500 cattle fattening unit with 180 acre field attached in hospital for sale , so can't be too bad around there

That has had tillage on it too which is very rare around the area. Good land. I think there was a rotary in there at one stage before my time. Back further to Kilteely would have good land too.

kerry cow

Did that big hospital farm sell ???