An eyesore ghost estate in a Kerry village is gaining as much notoriety as its most infamous son, the Wild Colonial Boy

It’s the fabled home of Jack Duggan but there was also something wild and colonial about the Kerry town of Castlemaine’s other claim to fame — one of the country’s most notorious ghost estates.

A housing estate in Co Kerry has been sold for nearly five times its sale value at a property auction in Dublin today.

A fully finished holiday home in a world-famous retirement town was yesterday sold for a knockdown €50,000.