Council plans to turn dump into adventure park

Ambitious plans to transform a former city dump into one of the country’s largest adventure, leisure, and recreation parks have been unveiled.

The phased development of Cork City’s former landfill on the Kinsale Rd will be one of the largest such reclamation projects in Ireland. It is hoped the plan will be completed by 2018.

The draft masterplan, prepared by landscape architects Brady Shipman Martin for Cork City Council, says the new park “has the potential to become Cork’s year-round active and energetic family leisure and recreation destination”, and will be of “national importance”.