Environmentalists save historic archway from council demolition

A PROTECTED structure has been saved from council demolition by local environmentalists.

Pipe-laying by Macroom Town Council has ceased at a site at Masseytown Macroom following successful efforts by Macroom District Environmental Group (MDEG) to retain a stone archway believed to be part of an old tan yard and possibly an earlier Society of Friends meeting house.

The council was scheduled to take down part of the wall located on council lands on Monday last.