Residents’ anger over plan to shut rail crossing

A RURAL community in Kerry is up in arms over plans by Iarnród Éireann to close a level crossing on a roadway leading to 14 homes.

Local families have to travel over the user-operated Stagmount crossing, on the railway line between Killarney and Rathmore, to access their houses.

The crossing is just 30 metres off the N72 Killarney to Mallow road.