little house

up the road from the beach,  about a 5 min walk.  Needs some TLC.  It is vacant and I don't know the status of the house but I like it.

housing estate nightmare

The article below is from 2012.   

A big eye sore and a place that has been vandalized and stripped of everything of value.  I noticed this place when I first started walking to the recycle centre, it is located right near there.

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An entire housing estate that is subsiding as a result of being built on a bog should be levelled, most of its owners have told the High Court. The development has been referred to locally as the “Titanic site”, the court heard.

Radharc An Seascan, a 15-house estate at Meenmore overlooking Dungloe Bay in Co Donegal, was largely completed in 2007/8 and sold mostly to people from Northern Ireland who bought the houses as holiday homes and investments.  The owners have sued the builders.

Within a year of completion of the estate the entire site suffered serious subsidence because it was built on a peat bog, Desmond Murphy, counsel for 13 of the house owners, said.

The owners say the subsidence caused water pipes in the houses to break, damaged central heating and drainage/sewage systems, caused steps and ramps to detach from walls, and tarmac to sink.

Some of the owners had used the houses to holiday in themselves, while others had rented them out until the subsidence problems made them uninhabitable, the court heard.

The houses now attract anti-social behaviour, illegal dumping and have also been subjected to vandalism and theft, with the heating boilers from most of the houses stolen in October 2011, the owners say.

Holes of up to a metre wide have appeared on the site, posing a serious danger, particularly for children.

Most of the owners, who paid between €155,000 and €190,000 for the houses, told the court they believed all the houses should be knocked because they could not be economically repaired.

Info from the Irish Times, Oct 08, 2012

O'Donnell Building

built in 1909 and located on main street.  Someone has bought the building and I wonder what it will become.  I couldn't find any info on it so I have no idea what it was before it became vacant.

signs

Ballina
10/10/18

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contrast

the house on the right is nice and neat with lots of flowers.  The house on the left is vacant and unkept.  A sad situation for the odd pairing.

vacant

This house is right down by the beach about a one minute walk and no one seems to live  there.  It's not for sale so I don't know what's up with it.  It would be a nice little place to fix up and call home.

an old house

that needs some maintenance, yard work and TLC.  I would like to know what the story behind this  house is.  No signs, no people, no idea.  Hope it finds the help it needs.

I'm going to link this post to Tuesday's Treasures hosted by Tom The Backroads Traveler