'A Harry Potter Cupboard' Bedroom Is Available To Rent And It's 600 Euro A Month

Rent prices in Dublin are at an all-time high and finding somewhere that's a normal size and doesn't require criminal activity to pay your rent is next to impossible.

Now, to add insult to injury, a tiny cupboard style room is available to rent in Chelmsford Road, Dublin 6. The 'bedroom', which appeared on Rent.ie, is stuffed with a single bed, a shelf, no window and a storage unit.

Anyone fancy living in a closet for just 610 euro a month? pic.twitter.com/quqqLx1Gb0

— Paddy Galloway (@PaddyG96) July 22, 2018

While you might be grateful for the room if you're stuck for a night, the €610 price tag is beyond ridiculous even if a claustrophobic space is something you'd be into. The room is part of a flat where one other person lives.

With nearly 400 retweets and 1,300 likes, Twitter comments on the bedroom have been rampant and it's terrifying to think what was once a joke is now a reality:

We used to joke about renting out the hot press ?‍♂️?‍♀️

— Maddog Darragh (@MaddogDarragh) July 24, 2018

It does seem the Government have admitted that anybody earning 50k or below simply can't afford to rent or buy in Dublin.

— Daithi (@daithigor) July 23, 2018

Sorry my storage cupboard is bigger than that. Shocking!!!

— Claudia Simone (@ClaudySimone) July 22, 2018

Bit perverse this pic.twitter.com/ROu7FiO0Ya

— Dave McGinn (@davemcginn_ie) July 22, 2018

The Harry Potter experience

— kevin (@OkeyDoke90) July 22, 2018

pic.twitter.com/JoacLDNdrx

— PDEFC1878 (@PDEFC1878) July 23, 2018

Already spent 15 years in the closet why not 3 more

— ? Nhoj (@JohnEd98) July 22, 2018

Looks like the cupboard under the stairs from Harry Potter ?

— Aveen Kinsella (@AwkwardAveen) July 22, 2018

Even the Furby looks cramped and depressed pic.twitter.com/ddvW0hnarL

— // MOOT \\ (@MootIreland) July 22, 2018

Twitter has become a wasteland of terrifying Dublin rentals in recent years. One user posted this €460 a month rental to share a bunk bed:

For half a grand, you can rent half a bunk bed. This is the reality in Dublin right now. #housing #HousingCrisis @daftmedia pic.twitter.com/WiT5c2gvhc

— Caelainn Hogan (@CaelainnH) July 19, 2018

As people are joining mammoth queues to view apartments and rents are already up 15% on last year, it's time for the madness to end. Since going viral the box room ad has been removed from Rent.ie.