500 face CPO fears as motorway plans loom

NEARLY 500 farmers in Co Cork and Limerick will have many sleepless nights over the next three months, living in fear of their farms being decimated by compulsory acquisition orders.

Their farms range from Killeens Cross, near Blarney, Co City and Adare, Co Limerick. They lie along six possible routes of a motorway to replace the existing N20.

Farmers crowded into public information sessions at four venues last week to get the first glimpse of the proposed routes. For hundreds of them, their worst fears were confirmed as they scrutinised maps which identified that their holdings were on one of the six possible routes.