Killarney housing ban ‘totally unfair’

A “VIRTUAL ban” on Killarney townspeople from building houses in the surrounding countryside is “totally unfair”, according to a local official.

The high cost of houses and scarcity of sites in Killarney are among the factors forcing some people to look for sites in rural areas, according to Independent Councillor Danny Healy-Rae.

But, he claimed, the council had imposed a virtual ban on the granting of planning permission in the townlands of Aghadoe, Barleymount, Kilcummin, Tiernaboul and Muckross.