Thieves stole seven animals belonging to farmer Jack Corkery from Ballyvourney, Cork
“He was keeping 42 animals out there and the animals that were all stolen were in the pen nearest the door, but they were other animals in the same pen, so they had a bit of sorting to do – the fact they stole weanling calves threw us – that’s hard to figure out but it’s like they were stealing to order
The Corkerys have reported the theft to gardaí in Macroom but they have also made their own inquiries locally and have established that a jeep towing a three axle trailer went over the Top of Coom on the Cork-Kerry border, just beyond Cuil Aodha, around 2am on Saturday, December 24th. Gardaí say that they suspect that the Ballyvourney cattle thefts may be the work of same gang of cattle rustlers, who stole eight cattle from an outside farm Aughadown near Skibbereen in West Cork in mid-November when they again targeted an isolated unoccupied property.
A garda source said: “It’s a very similar type of theft – it’s very brazen because they clearly had to do a recce beforehand, they couldn’t just pull up so they must have scouted the place out and had good local knowledge in terms back roads to get in and out in Ballyvourney as they did in Aughadown.
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