The asking price for this site on the Sligo coast is €300,000 for 0.11 acre, roughly €2.73 million per acre.
daft.ie/searchsale.daft?id=519914
The auctioneer is FF Senator Marc MacSharry, one party member who does not seem to have heard of the property crash!
I thought you couldn’t build on a site that small, but I see that it is a serviced site, so I suppose that is the difference?
10 minutes up the road in Leitrim you’d probably get about 6-8 acres for that kind of money. 
Yes, it could well be the most overpriced site in Ireland.
He seems to be trying hard NOT to sell it.
Why, I wonder?
Ah, the McSharry’s (senior and junior) and land in Sligo.
I believe this case is still trundling its way through the courts:
independent.ie/national-news … 31361.html
sligotoday.ie/details.php?id … 8bbcda441a
You can take the culchie FFer out of the bog and put him in Europe. But he is still as slippery as a greased hyperactive eel and a slimey as an overflowing septic tank.
Yes, I am looking forward to this case - it will be heard next month, I think - when some of Sligo’s “great and good” will be questioned.
It is reminiscent of an Offaly case
herald.ie/news/biffo-running … 05210.html
Its like ground-hog day every day with these guys
At this price it really should include the house, but I have a funny feeling it doesn’t.
WTF.
It depends on the site. It could be reasonable value. The myhome entry is severely lacking in detail.
I’ve made a couple of enquiries about this site to Lynam Auctioneers but have yet to receive a reply.
I think these 2 are the most expensive garden development sites on the market today.
This one working out at €5.25 million per acre if that was available.
daft.ie/searchsale.daft?id=484373
And this on at €5 million per acre