Kerry development company manifestly trespassed on lands, judge rules

IRD Duhallow given four weeks to remove bench and a plinth and reinstate O’Sullivan lands near Rathmore, Co Kerry

The Rylane to Millstreet road on what used to be the Kerry-Cork Butter Road. Picture: Denis Minihane

A local development company had “manifestly trespassed” when it entered into, carried out excavation works and removed ditches on private lands near Rathmore, Co Kerry, in the “strong belief” the section of farmland was part of the old Butter Road, or “highway”, between Listowel and Cork, the Circuit Civil Court in Killarney heard.

IRD Duhallow CLG, with an address at James O'Keeffe Institute, Newmarket, Co Cork, which the court was told was developing a community walkway under a department scheme, has now been given four weeks to remove a bench and a plinth and reinstate lands at Shinnagh, Rathmore.