Questions over council plan to spend €175k saving chimney

A LOCAL authority is set to spend €175,000 on saving a 400-year-old chimney on top of the oldest building in Ennis.

The triple diamond Jacobean chimney in Ennis’s Chapel Lane dates from the period 1580 to 1650 and now poses a risk to the public due to its state of disrepair.

The chimney is a protected structure and the works will involve the careful demolition of the gable wall and chimney and their subsequent reconstruction.