Drishane Castle (Millstreet)
Large IPAS site on a roughly 200-acre castle estate near Millstreet, Co. Cork (350 contracted; 288 residents in Feb 2024), run by Millstreet Equestrian Services (Cromey Ltd). State payments to the Millstreet contract exceeded €33m across 2000–2014.
Capacity
350
people (reported)
Per night
€84
per person (benchmark)
Annual
€10.7m
estimated
Background
The site is at Drishane Castle, Drishanemore, Millstreet, Co. Cork, P51 XR02. Irish international protection accommodation is provided through IPAS (the International Protection Accommodation Service), under the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. For how the system works and what it costs, open the cost panel on the interactive map with Ireland selected.
Cost
Irish IPAS accommodation is funded by the State. At a blended benchmark of about €84 per person per night (the 2024 whole-system average reported by RTÉ), the 350 people reported here imply roughly €10.7m per year. This is an order-of-magnitude figure for context only, not a site-specific invoice — over 90% of IPAS accommodation is commercially provided and emergency rates run far above State-owned centres.
Sources
HIQA · Feb 2024. View source
Coordinates geocoded from the published address/town via OpenStreetMap; status reflects the cited reporting and may have changed since.