Plans to move Tralee courthouse opposed by lawyers

Plans to relocate Kerry’s county courthouse from Tralee town centre to a site on the grounds of an army barracks are being resisted by the legal profession.

Local councillors and businesses want the court complex to remain in the heart of the town. The early 19th-century building high over Ashe St has an imposing facade, but few facilities.

The listed building has just two court rooms for a busy civil, criminal, and family law schedule of district and circuit sittings and coroners’ inquests.