Place: Carrigaphooca Castle

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Don’t blame slug for road plan delay

YOUR report of last week’s meeting of Kerry County Council treated us to a re-run of the ‘environmentalist and the snail’ story (Snail blamed for delays to Cork-Kerry road plan, June 22). We were told a judicial review on behalf of the snail by “environmentalists” was holding up the road.

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Slugs on the move as bypass sanctioned

Keep motorway wellclear of historic castle

NRA should change planned route to avoid destruction of Carrigaphooca Castle

Last stand by defenders of a Gaelic clan fortress

Road project out of line with EU rules

Castle under siege

I HAVE visited Ireland every year since 2000 and have always gone to Carrigaphooca Castle, near Macroom, on my way to the Beara peninsula.

Wed, 16 Aug, 2006

Bypass ‘travesty’ at the fairytale castle

AS part of the N22 bypass of Macroom in Co Cork, the NRA proposes to erect a flyover at the site of a monument to six people killed during the civil war and a roundabout in front of Carrigaphooca Castle.

Thu, 13 Jul, 2006