Killarney Station is a

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that operates as a

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in the

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of the

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. The property is situated approximately south east of Timber Creek and south of Darwin.

History

Killarney Station was established by Eric Izod with managing partner Ivor Hall in 1953.

Bill Tapp Charles William Tapp, best known as Bill Tapp (2 June 1929 – 22 May 1992), was a pioneer and cattleman from Killarney Station in the Northern Territory of Australia. Early life Tapp was born in Sydney on 2 June 1929 and grew up in Vaucluse. ...

purchased Killarney following talks with Izod and Hall about buying Killarney Station in 1960. Tapp paid £90,000, a Northern Territory record price for a cattle station at that time. He received title to Killarney in 1962. The Tapp family properties, including Killarney Station went into receivership in 1991. Brian Oxenford's Western Grazing Company purchased the property. Wallco acquired Killarney in 2001 from Western Grazing Company. The property was being run in conjunction with neighbouring Birrimba Station forming an aggregation with an area of that was supporting a herd of 41,000

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cattle. In 2012 the property was run by Wallco Pastoral Company until it was placed in

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by the

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before a refinancing. Killarney was sold in 2014 to the

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for about 35 million. At the time it occupied an area of . Most of Birrimba and a small portion of Killarney were burnt out by a bushfire in 2014.

References

{{Reflist Pastoral leases in the Northern Territory Stations (Australian agriculture) 1953 establishments in Australia

History

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