Town council purchase of land to benefit entire community
The current owners are about to sell the site, known as the Fair Field, for €2.9 million to Skibbereen Town Council. Mr Healy said the council had put a deposit of €190,000 on the property, which had previously been, for many years, in local authority control.
The 2.1-acre site, part of a property still known locally as the mart yard, was at the centre of a bitter High Court row in the early 1990s. Cork Marts, through changes in the Landlord and Tenant Act, secured ownership from the town council for €3,000 and later sold the entire 3.5 acre site for a reported €3.5 million.
