Gardaí seize €350,000 grow house in Moyvane; man arrested
Gardaí from Listowel searched a house in Moyvane on 3 July 2017 and seized cannabis plants at various stages of growth plus dried cannabis, valued at up to €350,000. A man in his 60s was arrested and later released pending a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Gardaí from Listowel carried out a planned search of a house in Moyvane on the afternoon of Monday 3 July 2017 and found a sophisticated indoor grow house.[1][2]Officers seized cannabis plants at various stages of maturity together with dried cannabis, with a combined estimated street value of up to €350,000 pending analysis.[1][2]
A man in his 60s was arrested at the scene and detained at Listowel Garda Station under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.[1][2]He was later released pending a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions, and the scene was preserved for technical examination.[1][2]
Grow house
The Moyvane find was one of several indoor grows uncovered in Kerry that year, where plants grown under lights to maturity alongside dried product point to an established production site rather than a first crop.[1][2] No charges or later court outcome for the arrested man were reported.
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No plant count or weight was published; only the estimated street value.
The outcome of the file to the Director of Public Prosecutions is not known.
Garda handout photographs of the seizure appear on the Tralee Today page, but their direct addresses could not be recovered, so no media entry was made.
Customs officers and gardaí searched business and residential properties in Cashel and Thurles, County Tipperary, and seized a large quantity of suspected cannabis-infused products. No weight, value, arrests or suspected offence were reported.
Gardaí found a cannabis grow house at a home in Ballymakeera, Co Cork, and seized 122 mature plants and about 1 kg of loose cannabis with a combined estimated value of €117,600. A man in his 40s was arrested.
Gardaí searching two homes in Ballynagore, Co Westmeath, on 31 December 2025 dismantled sophisticated cannabis growhouses and seized plants and herb worth an estimated €2.25 million; no arrests were reported in the accounts opened.
Gardai from the Dublin Crime Response Team and Drogheda found a large-scale cannabis cultivation factory in a Drogheda premises on 5 August 2025, seizing plants valued at more than 750,000 euro. Two men in their forties were arrested and detained under drug-trafficking powers.
