Entire 14-house estate sells for €235,000

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.

The entire 14-house Annagh Banks estate, branded an “eyesore” by locals on the Dingle Peninsula, yesterday sold at auction for €235,000.

The scale of Ireland’s property crash can be judged by how the asking price for individual houses in the estate, which is located on the outskirts of Castlemaine on the main Killarney-Dingle road, was €200,000 when the scheme was first launched.