CASTLEMARTIN STUD FARM , IRELAND

One of Ireland’s greatest estates, and the birthplace of classic and group winning thoroughbreds for over four decades

These particulars are intended only as a guide and must not be relied upon as statements of fact. Your attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the text. An aerial view of Castlemartin. The lies in the background. Main House Entrance hall • Reception hall • Drawing room • Morning room • Dining room • Library • Study and private office • Kitchen Breakfast room • Bar and TV room • Extensive cellars • Extensive domestic offices • Laundry room • Staff flat Master bedroom suite • 9 principal bedrooms, 4 of which are en suite • 3 family bathrooms

Grounds and Gardens Car port • Outdoor swimming pool • Tennis court • Pool house • Summer house • Walled kitchen garden 4 guest cottages and staff apartments • Main entrance lodge • Caretaker’s house • Brownstown Cottage • The Church of St. Mary

Conference centre • Estate Manager’s office • Stud Manager’s office • Farm Manager’s office • Chauffeur’s lounge Security office • Extensive range of outbuildings Equestrian Facilities Exceptional breeding complex including 2 separate yards with a total of 89 boxes

Castlemartin Stud Yard • 12 loose boxes • 2 American barns containing a further 36 stables • Machine shed • Vet stocks Feed and tack rooms • Numerous barns and outbuildings • Turnout paddock

Greenhills Stud Yard • 41 loose boxes • Feed and tack rooms • Veterinary office • Lunging ring • 8 bay horse walker Canteen • Numerous outbuildings • Vet Stocks

There are 40 paddocks at Castlemartin Stud Farm, all accessed via an extensive internal road network with tremendous shelter and piped water to all paddocks

Farm Facilities Extensive farming enterprise that consists of two yards lying on either side of the River Liffey

Castlemartin Farm Yard • Wintering facilities for c.250 head of cattle which includes cattle holding pens and crush • 12 bay hayshed • 7 bay hayshed 5 bay lean-to • 5 bay lean-to with access to exercise area • 3 cattle sheds • 2 three tonne feed bins • Dung stead and effluent tanks • Concrete slab silage pit

Greenhills Farm Yard • Facilities for c.150 head of cattle which includes a slatted beef unit Silage pit • Numerous hay sheds with lean-tos • Veterinary room • Effluent storage

In all about 750 acres

Historical Note

Castlemartin traces its origins to the 13th century where the Eustace castle once stood, until in 1591 it was burnt down. The present house, which faces south along a straight lime tree avenue, was built in c.1720, by a Dublin banker and then Member of Parliament called Francis Harrison, using some materials from the old Eustace Castle which today still forms part of the large wine cellar in the basement.

Sold to Thomas Carter M.P., father of Captain Henry Boyle Carter in 1730, it remained in the ownership of the Carter family until it was commandeered by Lt-Gen Sir Ralph Dundas as his headquarters in the 1798 rebellion.

In 1854, Castlemartin was bought by T.S. Blacker, and remained in the Blacker Family until in 1967 it was left to Sheelagh Blacker’s great nephew, the 2nd Earl of Gowrie, who held onto it for a short period before subsequently selling the Estate to its present owners in 1972. Castlemartin House

Situated less than thirty-five miles from Dublin, Castlemartin is a rare and Castlemartin House, built in c.1720, is a wonderful example of an early fine example of classical Georgian architectural excellence with a stunning Georgian mansion. The house consists of some wonderful reception and back-drop of the River Liffey and surrounding parkland - few Estates enjoy entertaining rooms on the ground floor, as well as a library and several family such a spectacular setting. rooms. Upstairs, there is the wonderfully appointed master suite consisting of his and hers bathrooms and a large dressing room. In addition to the Located in County Kildare, regarded as the thoroughbred county in master suite, there are a further 9 principal bedrooms in the main house. Ireland, the landscape is dominated and characterised by the quality of its agricultural land which is made up of carboniferous limestone, sand and There is ample guest and staff accommodation on-site, with the large pool gravel. This not only provides good drainage but the limestone helps to house, two cottages in the courtyard, three further staff apartments, a grow strong bone in young thoroughbreds. caretaker’s house and the front lodge.

CASTLEMARTIN Approximate Gross Internal Floor Area: Reception Bathroom STUD FARM 2,428 sq.mts / 26,135 sq.ft. Kitchen/Utility Storage This plan is for guidance only and must not be relied upon as a statement of fact. Attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the text of the Bedroom Recreation COUNTY KILDARE, IRELAND Particulars. Outbuildings are not shown in actual location or orientation.

Basement Ground Floor First Floor Attic CASTLEMARTIN Approximate Gross Internal Floor Area: Reception Bathroom STUD FARM 2,428 sq.mts / 26,135 sq.ft. Kitchen/Utility Storage This plan is for guidance only and must not be relied upon as a statement of fact. Attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the text of the Bedroom Recreation COUNTY KILDARE, IRELAND Particulars. Outbuildings are not shown in actual location or orientation.

Basement Ground Floor First Floor Attic Castlemartin Stud Farm

The Castlemartin Estate holds some of the best private stretches of the River remarkable Estate and has become renowned as a centre for breeding Liffey for salmon and trout fishing. There is a 1 ½ mile stretch of double- thoroughbred racehorses of the highest calibre. bank fishing that meanders through the estate. With two large stable yards and two farm yards, there are some 89 loose Over the past 40 years, through considerable investment and meticulous boxes, a horse walker, a lunge ring, numerous haysheds, barns and attention to detail, Castlemartin Stud Farm has been restored to a outbuildings, wintering facilities for c.400 cattle, and many additional facilities that are to be expected of a stud farm of this calibre.

The River Liffey The Summer House

Castlemartin Bridge linking both sides of the estate Courtyard with Guest Cottages and Staff Apartments

Walled Kitchen Garden The Church of St. Mary Castlemartin Stud Yard

Greenhills Farm Yard Greenhills Stud Yard Racing Fishing

Set within thoroughbred racing county, many renowned There is ample fishing available on the River Liffey, which racecourses are in close proximity to the estate. The Curragh runs through the core of the estate for c.1 ½ miles with good Racecourse, home to all five Irish Classic races; Punchestown stocks of salmon and trout.

Racecourse, home of the National Hunt Festival of Ireland; Golf Naas Racecourse which runs both National Hunt and Flat There are a number of excellent courses in Co. Kildare. The meetings and Fairyhouse, home to The Irish Grand National K Club, only a twenty minute drive from the Estate, with its are all within easy reach. highly regarded 5* Hotel and restaurants has two golf courses, Kildare is famous as a location of some of the world’s top and was the venue for the 2006 Ryder Cup. The Carton Golf stud farms including the , Gilltown, and Country Club is also only a short drive away and was , Moyglare, Juddmonte Farms, Derrinstown and home to the 2013 Irish Open.

Kildangan Stud. County Kildare is also home to some of the Travel by Car finest race horse training establishments in the world. County Kildare houses the hub of Ireland’s network of major Hunting roads, with central Dublin only 50km away. The M9 and M7

The Kildare Foxhounds are kennelled on the grounds of (N7) offer a convenient route to Dublin Airport (45 minutes).

Punchestown National Hunt Racecourse. Neighbouring Travel by Air counties also host notable hunting packs. Dublin airport is a 45 minute drive. Weston private airport Shooting (near Lexlip) is a 35 minute drive. Access by helicopter is possible, with a landing area to the south of the house at the The estate lends itself to a private shoot. There are also a lime-tree walk. Co-ordinates available upon request. number of private and syndicate shoots in Co. Kildare, Co. Wicklow and Co. Meath. (All distances and times are approximate) 682735

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Old Club Kilcullen R.F.C House

Pedigree

Castlemartin and Le Louviers Stud has produced many top Ballyme Cross Roads class horses including Classic, Group and Listed Winners:

• Beach Belle Listed. Silo

• Chinese White Gr 1 Pretty Polly Stakes: 400kv Gr 2 Blandford Stakes

FB • Ectot Gr 1 Criterium International (in partnership) Pond • Equino Gr 1, King Stand Stakes (Twice) Gravel Pit • Helissio Gr 1 Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe • Joshua Tree Gr 1 Canadian International (Twice) • Lawman Gr 1 Prix du Jockey Club; Gr 1 Prix Jean Prat

T • Latice Gr 1 Prix de Diane; Gr 3 Prix de Conde

• Lesstalkinginparis Gr 3 Prix D’Annule: Listed, 23

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Lui na Greine 20 19 1 2

5 2nd Coronation Stakes Gr 1 6

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• Lightening Pearl Gr 1 Cheveley Park Stakes; Poulmulrishe

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Gr 3 Go & Go Round Tower Stake 15 6

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Moanbane 27 Park

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21 6 • Loi Gr 3 Prix de Conde 22

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1 • Moohaajim Gr 2 Mill Reef Stakes 12

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51 • Most Improved Gr 1 St. James Palace Stakes 52

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KILCULLEN 29 28

• Nahoodh Gr 1 Falmouth Stakes 28

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St. Mary's 39 Laurel Wood

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Castlemartin Tks • Pearl Flute Gr 3 Prix de Chenes: Bridge

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Gr 3 Prix du Palais Royal 1

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• Recharge Gr 3 2000 Guinneas Trial 59 5

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Tennis 75 51 Grounds 61

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80 Hill Crest 53 58 • Terrubi Listed 10 Logstown

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And many more too numerous to mention. 3 Laurel Walk Wood RIVER LIFFEY

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BM 106.83 Tennis Grounds

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Town Hall

New Abbey

BM 105.44 Kilcullen Bridge Livestock Mart

BM 102.27 Credit Union 12 Riverside Manor Laurel Walk 682735 684865

Car Park 14 8

Car Park Hall Well Grand Gate 18 Monument

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9 Castlemartin Lodge 2 Sunnyhill 1

Chapel 16 17 1 Library 709575 Jetty 709575 54 River 78 77 N52 N2 M1

Kells N51 Slane Drogheda N51 Castlepollard N52 M3 N2 Navan M1

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Delvin N51

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N2 Trim M3 Lusk Rush Dunshaughlin Ashbourne Mullingar N4

Ratoath M1

M2 N52 M4 Kinnegad M3 Swords M6 Portmarnock M4 Dublin Dunboyne Airport M1

M4 N2 N32 Kilcock M50 M6 Maynooth N3

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M50 Rathangan Naas M11

M7 Newbridge N81 Bray Blessington Portarlington Kildare M7 Castlemartin Monasterevin Stud Farm Ballymore N11 Eustace

Killcullen M7 N81 M9

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Fixtures and Fittings Method of Sale

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