“Absolutely Fabulous” win at Beef Expo Ireland

The Clonagh herd celebrated an excellent win at the recent Beef Expo Ireland in Kilkenny when our October born heifer “Clonagh Absolutely Fabulous” was crowned National Yearling Heifer Champion for 2010. She is by Banwy T-Rex out of a homebred heifer Clonagh Shania Babe an ET daughter of Clonagh Edel and Dovefields Gallant. She was the youngest heifer in her class and was later crowned Reserve Female Champion of the show.

A T-Rex son, “Jennalyn Adonis” won the Junior bull class. He is also by Banwy T-Rex and is out of Ballybane Nora. He was earlier crowned Reserve National Junior Bull at Tullamore Show.

Also in the National Yearling Heifer Finals, our other show heifer, “Jennalyn Anora” by Banwy T-Rex was placed 4th. This powerful red heifer will be offered for sale along with a number of other elite heifers and bulls from the herd at the Premier sale in Roscommon on the 6th November 2010.

Clonagh double at National Ploughing Championships

The Clonagh herd celebrated a double victory at last weeks Ploughing Championships in Athy, Co. Kildare taking both champion and reserve in the National Irish Simmental “Ploughing Bull Championship”. In top spot was the 2nd youngest bull in the ring, “Clonagh Awesome Truely” by Banwy T-Rex out of our junior show cow Clonagh Truely Scrumptious. This young bull has been greatly admired throughout the summer as well as taking championships at Moate and Clonaslee shows beating off All Ireland Champions “Raceview Abbey Princess” and “Clonagh Admire Me” on both occasions. He will be offered for sale at the Premier Show & Sale in Roscommon on Saturday November 6th.

Second prize went to our July bull, “Clonagh Accident” by Clonagh Vom Vumb while our September bull “Jennalyn All Star” was placed 5th in the final line up.

Overall we had a very enjoyable week with our stock bull “Banwy T-Rex receiving plenty of admiration and enquiries from the thousands who passed through the Simmental stand. A number of bulls from our line up were also sold during the week as well as a great interest in semen and heifer sales.

Clonagh Herd takes the double at National Show

The Clonagh Herd celebrated a unique victory at the National Livestock Show, Tullamore in August securing both the Overall Male and Overall Female titles. Supreme Champion and Overall Male of the show went to our senior her sire, “Banwy T-Rex” who was earlier crowned the National Senior Bull Champion for the third year in a row.

Take the Female and reserve Overall champion of the show was our latest edition to the herd, “Raceview Abbey Princess” who was earlier crowned the National Junior Heifer Champion. Abbey was purchased at the Premier sale in Roscommon in November 2009 to celebrate our 20th year in breeding Simmentals.

In total we exhibited 15 cattle at the National Livestock Show including two Limousin heifers. Of the four National Simmentals classes competed in three title were claimed.

Our young heifers did us extremely proud in our first class of the day with three Banwy T-Rex daughters finishing in the top eight of an extremely competitive class of 22 autumn 2009 heifers. Topping our line up in third place was a powerful red heifer, “Jennalyn Anora” our of a heifer Jennalyn Tina by Dirnanean Jacob. This heifer has previously claimed first prizes at Tinahely Show a week beforehand beating our junior heifer “Raceview Abbey Princess” in her class. In fourth place was “Clonagh Absolutely Fabulous” one of the youngest heifers in the class. She is out of a Dovefields Gallant cow Clonagh Shania Babe. In eight place was a Banwy T-Rex daughter from Cork, “Milton Amour” who was already Reserve Female Champion at the Southern Club calf finals in July.

Following on from this was a large All Ireland class of junior heifers which was won by “Raceview Abbey Princess” who later went on to claim the overall female championship of the show.

Not wanting to be overshadowed by the ladies, our autumn bull calves did extremely well in against some very strong for age bulls in the autumn 2009 bull class. Taking second position was the much admired “Clonagh Awesome Truley” by Banwy T-Rex out of our junior show cow Clonagh Truley Scrumptious. This October bull was giving away well over a month to the first prizewinner so we were delighted with his performance. In fourth place was the up to then unbeaten “Jennalyn Allstar” again by Banwy T-Rex.

The next class was the National Junior bull class which was dominated by Clonagh cattle taking first, second and fourth positions. Leading the way was “Clonagh Admire Me” by Banwy T-Rex our of a Hillcrest King cow Cloneygowan Primrose. In reserve position was “Jennalyn Adonis” also by Banwy T-Rex out of a Ballybane Henry cow Balylbane Nora. In fourth spot was the young bull in the class, “Clonagh Accident” who was a result of two members of the 2008 show team “Clonagh Tilly Fiona” and “Clonagh Vom Vumb” getting a bit frisky after a show! All of these bulls are currently being offered for sale.