Kilmeaden plans to be tourism big cheese

WATERFORD aims to boost leisure tourism and lure golfing holiday-makers to a multi-million euro development in the county.

A major estate in Kilmeaden is to be transformed into a golfing, fishing and leisure retreat to rival Mount Juliet and the K-Club. The ambitious project has received the green light from Waterford County Council and clears the final appeals hurdle this Thursday.

Under the plan, it is proposed to transform the historic 19th century Whitfield Court House mansion at Dooneen, Powersknock, Whitfield North, into a hotel and to build 32 houses, holiday apartments and chalets, a fishing village and 18-hole golf course on its 234-acre estate.