Okay, I said at the start that it wouldn't all be pretty but I found myself wanting to share the beauty of my country too much so I didn't take many pictures of the empty shops for sale or run down housing estates. There are hundreds of unfinished housing estates dotted around the Irish countryside. In some of them only a few houses are occupied so those who have bought homes there are living beside half finished houses without proper lighting or roads. In this case, only the foundation for the roads which would have lead to the estate have been laid. Even the advertising sign for the estate has fallen down and now the grass and weeds are reclaiming the land.