A significant increase in farm building costs has been the greatest challenge confronting Co Down farmer, Philp Truesdale.

Plans to covert a courtyard of rural agricultural buildings into a small holiday site have been given the go-ahead by councillors. The site, which comprises a number of farm units, is located near ...

“The place was a wreck,” said Marc Blau of the Slate Belt Heritage Center, of the unique, Quonset hut-style structure in the shape of a cut-off barrel. It and the surrounding property became “an ...

Westmeath has a rich and extensive farming heritage, best exemplified in the traditional farm buildings that dot the ...