Overloaded wastewater plant halts progress in Cork village

As the local primary school in Carrignavar prepares to move to a new campus this summer, concerns over the fate of the former building, located centrally in the village, have been raised

Cork diocesan secretary Fr Michael Keohane said no plans for the soon to be vacated old school site had been formulated 'as of yet'. Picture: David Creedon

A two-and-a-half acre former school site in the Cork village of Carrignavar will be left vacant at a time when the area is “crying out for houses”, due to the village’s overloaded wastewater treatment plant, the chairman of the school’s board of management has said.

Local primary school Scoil an Athar Tadhg is due to move into an €11m new school campus this summer, but concerns have been raised as to the fate of the former school building which is located centrally in the village.