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Ballybrado House & Farm
Ballybrado House & Farm
The Organic Roots of Ballybrado |  | 
July 19th, 1983. It is still dark in the morning when a trek, almost 100m long, consisting of tractors, trailers, combine, farm machinery and accompanying vehicles, left Bad Kreuznach, Germany. Its destination: Cahir in the county of Tipperary, Ireland. Friends and neighbours, nearly the whole village had come to bid its farewell. The route had been carefully planned to make sure bridges with weight restrictions would be avoided and places to pause and stay overnight would be identified and marked on the map.
The History of Ballybrado House | |
There are two possible interpretations of the word Ballybrado: - the town land of the trout - the town land of the thieves  Ballybrado House, 100 years ago. Built during the Victorian times the architecture shows many features of this time
Ballybrado nature reserve | |
The very versatile layout of Ballybrado Farm (once described as a landscape of the 19th century by a journalist of the FAZ newspaper), containing meadows, tilled fields, wetlands, forests and rivers, provides habitats for an abundance of wildlife. Already in the early days an arrangement with the Irish Wild Bird Conservancy was entered into, declaring Ballybrado Farm a Nature Reserve, banning all shooting and hunting and managing the habitats for wildlife. 25 years on the farm has become a haven for birds. More than 55 bird species have been recorded on the farm, the latest addition being the Little Egret, normally living in Southern France and Northern Italy. Rare species include Kingfisher, Woodcock, Curlew, Dipper, Gold Crest, Long Tailed Tits, Gold Finch, Bull Finch, Tree Creeper, Jay, Kestrel, Tawny Owl and a pair of Rooks, living in a large eyrie in a majestic pine for the last 25 years.
A walk over the Farm | |
The layout of Ballybrado Farm reflects the landscape of a time when heavy machinery was not available to shape the farm in the most efficient and economic manner. The result is that nothing looks out of place, everything as the landscape suggests; all-in-all a rather old-fashioned impression, but in a very warm and harmonic way.
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