Bypass ‘travesty’ at the fairytale castle

AS part of the N22 bypass of Macroom in Co Cork, the NRA proposes to erect a flyover at the site of a monument to six people killed during the civil war and a roundabout in front of Carrigaphooca Castle.

All of the works involved in this travesty will be visible at a glance. Does this sum up the Government’s pathetic approach to our heritage?

At the current display of the proposed road route, Carrigaphooca Castle and Stone Circle, both national monuments and one a prime example of a Gaelic tower house, were not even pictured on the map. Neither was the monument to six young men who died in the civil war in 1922.