IT is said that cream always rises to the top and it was appropriate on Tuesday last, July 14th when some of the finest land in Co Kildare, at Bert Demesne on the edge of Athy, achieved a record price for 2015 in the area of just over €19,000 per acre.

Jordan Auctioneers, Newbridge handled the sale before a packed room in the Clanard Court Hotel, Athy. The land, surrounded by many of the best tillage farms in the country, was all in one block with extensive dual road frontage and had been in arable use for the last number of years, with no waste whatsoever and noted for its continual high yields.