E40,000 facelift planned at Gap of Dunloe

Donal Hickey

Ponymen at the Gap of Dunloe, near Killarney, have come up with a E20,000 contribution towards the cost of the work, to be carried out by Kerry County Council close to Kate Kearney’s Cottage. Work will include the laying of concrete and tarmacadam in a parking area for traps and ponies that take thousands of visitors through the spectacular, seven-mile gap.

The Gap of Dunloe trip has been a key part of the Killarney tourism experience for more than 200 years and the 34 ponymen have been trying to find ways of improving the parking place for a long time, said Councillor Johnny (Porridge) O’Connor.