Owners neglecting heritage buildings ‘to facilitate removal from protected list’

SOME owners of old, protected buildings in Killarney are allowing them to go derelict so that they can be more easily removed from the list of protected structures, executive planner Fiona O’Sullivan told Killarney Town Council.

Acting against the advice of their management and An Taisce, the council decided to delist two protected buildings in New Street, one of the original streets in the town.

One of the buildings, number 85, was described by An Taisce as one of the few, significant 18th century buildings in Killarney.