Trading up: Newcastle West, Co Limerick, €160,000

House costs may going up, but the price of this riverside folly in West Limerick has just come down dramatically.

Fuller’s Folly, a three-storey limestone castle /tower built in the 1870s, first went on the market in 2009 with a guide of €290,000.

Unsold then, the Newcastle West property is now back on with a guide of €160,000.