BusConnects proposal to turn ancient Cork walled garden into a car park

Members of Beaumont Residents’ Association believed they were nearing the end of negotiations to restore Beaumont walled garden's horticultural use as a community garden

 Members of the public opposed to the plans for a carpark at the site are urged to make a submission via busconnects.ie Pic; Larry Cummins

Residents in the Cork suburb of Blackrock have been angered by a BusConnects proposal to turn an 18th-century walled garden, that they hoped to use as a community garden, into a car park.

The two-acre Beaumont walled garden, which contains Cherrington Reservoir, once supplied food to the Beamish brewing family at Beaumont House before the house’s destruction in the 1920s.