Blaskets staff shelter gets €45k from OPW

Two projects in Co Kerry and one in Co Cork are among seven nationally to benefit from funding of €350,000 being provided by the Department of Arts, Heritage, and the Gaeltacht.

Some €45,000 has been allocated for a building used as a staff shelter on the Great Blasket Island; €40,000 for conservation work to a summer house, Derrynane, Co Kerry, ancestral home of Daniel O’Connell, and €45,000 for stone work at the walled garden in Garinish Island, Glengarriff, Co Cork.

The works are to be carried out by the OPW.