Teagasc is seeking a location for a new advisory office in north Co. Dublin to replace a former office in Kinsealy.

Teagasc has completed the sale of its lands in the Kinsealy area, which is between Malahide and Dublin Airport, to the Land Development Agency (LDA).

The advisory office that operated at the site has therefore now closed.

The site was also formerly the home of a horticulture research centre.

Teagasc director Prof. Frank O'Mara said that the body is now seeking an alternative location in north Co. Dublin to service its farmer clients in the area.

Speaking at the launch of Teagasc's Achievements 2025 publication yesterday (Tuesday, February 18), Prof. O'Mara stressed that the closure of the site was not related to cost cutting efforts at Teagasc, which Agriland reported on this week.

"Kinsealy was a site that, as part of rationalisation many years ago, we decided we were going to withdraw from," he said.

"It's a very valuable site... We had sold a little bit to the Department of Education... The Land Development Agency then also saw the value of that site. So they have purchased that site from us and the sale just went through there in the end of the year," Prof. O'Mara said.

He confirmed that Teagasc was looking for an alternative location in the north Co. Dublin area to service clients that previously would have been using the Kinsealy office for engagement with advisors.

The Teagasc director said that, in the absence of an office in that area, there are other Teagasc offices in relative proximity that could serve those clients before a new office is available.

"We have an office in Drogheda, we have an office in Grange [Co. Meath] and we have an office in Nass, which are all reasonably contiguous to our client base. So, you know, it's not as if they're a hundred kilometres from the nearest Teagasc office," he said.

Teagasc's director of knowledge transfer Stan Lalor also explained that the closure of the Kinsealy office was "in the ether for a very long time, and the LDA moved in the second half of last year".

"It's not related in any way to a budget question, and we're searching out for a location in that north Dublin area hinterland. The advisors are still operating in that area. They're operating out of Grange as it happens," Lalor said.

"We're actively seeking a location to make sure those clients up there continue to get services as they would be used to and as they're entitled to. It's just a work in progress," he added.