A ghost story for modern Ireland

Coill na Giúise is like so many of our 1,300 ghost estates: a once-pleasant landscape, cleared for houses that remain unfinished, and that many people want demolished. But is it that simple?

Abandoned: the unfinished Coill Na Giuise housing estate at Ballytegan, Gorey, Co Wexford. Photograph: Garry O’Neill
Abandoned: the unfinished Coill Na Giuise housing estate at Ballytegan, Gorey, Co Wexford. Photograph: Garry O’Neill