I agree, turn of the century houses, late Victorian or early Edwardian I'd say. They aren't there on the 1877 OS map, it's all coal yards at that stage.
Irish drains are generally shockingly poor compared to other countries I've lived in, it was only a matter of time. I wonder if he was bricking it when the next door was being brought back into use. I am assuming it's one of those long-term empty properties that the government enforced back into use (there's quite a few in my town undergoing the same, compulsory purchases etc.)
I'm not sure about the compulsory purchase, someone renovated it and it is up for sale again (they did a lovely job, I wonder why they put it back up for sale so quickly).
From the rumours around town, someone came to try to sort out the drains as the next door neighbours were having problems, I'm not sure if it was the Council or a private contractor but they had to pull the drain apart and apparently found her hand which was now skeletonised (you will see that in the papers it says that almost a full skeleton was found). And they went to the Guards about it. Apparently he had a cement floor in the house and an outside patio laid last year and the lads who did it found it a bit weird as he had walled in the access to the understairs space, which I would assume is at the back of the house near the drainage system.
He put her in a space that was under the floor by the wall and then blocked it up.
I am just so glad she has finally been found, her poor siblings have been heartbroken not knowing where she was (she would have never left without at least telling one of them), they are a very close family, and spend a lot of time together, another reason I believe why he persuaded her to move to Youghal, there is no direct bus route and I know she didn't drive and neither do her siblings. I think he wanted her isolated and unable to spend as much time with her family.
I rewatched one of the interviews that he had done over the years, and now with hindsight, he comes across as sounding a bit petty and annoyed.
The example he gave was that Tina's nana never had a wedding ring and she had always wanted one, when she got cancer Tina gifted her wedding ring to her which she is buried with, on the one hand he is pointing out how Tina was a lovely and generous woman but then went on to say that he had to go and buy her a new one (I felt that he was angry in how dare she give the ring I gave her to someone else and sounded annoyed he had to fork out more money for another one).
It's just knowing now for certain that she was dead by his hand before he gave these interviews about how brilliant he was to her and that he spoiled her, I think he took the fact that she liked nice things and used that as a way to control her, but that's just my opinion.
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