A Donegal cottage with links to Star Wars fetched a cool €1,670,000 at auction in 2023!
The Breasty Bay House and Skildren Cottage was revealed as the most expensive property that was sold in Donegal last year by the Irish Examiner recently.
It’s a location with unique ties to one of the most famous film franchises in the world, as filming for Star Wars: The Last Jedi took place on the grounds of the cottage, which is located near Malin Head.
Speaking with Donegal Daily in 2022, the now former owner of the property spoke about what it was like having Mark Hamill and Daisy Ridley show up in their front yard!
“The owners of Breasty Bay House told us they’d agreed to let a film company shoot there for a few months coming up and that we’d have to honour that. Not thinking much about it, we said it wasn’t a problem.”
“Later a location manager called in to say hello and get us to sign non-disclosure contracts. The next thing we knew there were buses, vans, portacabins, bulldozers, over a hundred people, security everywhere.”
Also filming in the Cormacks’ front yard were stars Mark Hamill and Daisy Ridley. “We didn’t realise it was Disney or that the film was The Last Jedi,” says Emma Cormack. “I’d never seen any of the films nor knew much about them. The kids did of course.”
“There was the strictest secrecy. We weren’t allowed carry phones with cameras outside. One day we had to ring ahead to the film company because basking sharks had come into the bay and we wanted to take pictures of them.
“Mark Hamill stayed for the duration of filming at Skildren Cottage and he loved his time there.”
