‘Disappeared’ home valued at €46,000

THE High Court has put a valuation of €46,000 on a man’s island holiday home which “disappeared” while he was abroad.

Filmmaker Neville Presho, from Hollywood, Co Down, is also to receive the costs of his lengthy legal battle over the destruction of his house on Tory Island, off the coast of Donegal, Justice Roderick Murphy ruled yesterday.

Last July, he won his High Court action against an adjoining hotel for trespass and physical damage to the 19th century stone house after it was gradually destroyed while was living in New Zealand between 1988 and 1994.