Leitrim Roscommon and South Sligo had a massive tax break fuelled building boom in recent years and are massively overbuilt as a consequence.
Introduced in the scheme was abolished in 2005 , the 10 year relief means the dumping will start in about 2010 when the tax relief is used up .
Only properties with planning permission pre jan 2005 can be used to avail of relief and then if finished by july this year , see [broken link removed]
also see population vs house completion stats for Leitrim, they were fairly banging out houses up there for years, see