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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 ā€˜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 ā€œenvironmentalistsā€ was holding up the road.

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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 ā€˜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

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