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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
Lifestyle
Eithne Dodd & Andrei Scintian & Mostafa Darwish

15 years on from Celtic Tiger, we went to one of Ireland's remaining ghost estates

More than a decade after it was nearly completed, a ghost estate in Carlow still lies empty.

The Glendale Estate outside Tullow, Carlow is one of Ireland's 75 ghost estates, even though it has 63 completed houses.

Ghost estates like Glendale are not only a physical scar on the landscape but a reminder of the continuing waste that is allowed even during a housing crisis.

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