Owner gets 17-year-old shop deleted from protected list

AN elderly Killarney woman has forced the local council to remove her picture-postcard shop from its list of protected structures.

Listed buildings are usually very old, but Margaret O’Leary pointed out yesterday that her store, which is also her home at 33 Main Street, is quite a new building.

“It’s built on the site of very old building in which my family have lived for five generations. Seventeen years ago, I completely demolished the original building, which was crumbling, and replaced it with this structure.