By-pass ensures healthy future for Fermoy scheme

WITH the new by-pass plan for Fermoy and a new River Blackwater crossing inching ahead, a new house development close to its path will proves the adage that development follows roads — and in this case precedes them.

The Manor is a scheme of 74 houses at Clondulane, just a mile or so downriver of the town of Fermoy, whose nightmarish traffic problems should ease once the proposed by-pass opens in a few years time.

Already, the Watergrasshill by-pass is complete, expediting travel from Cork city north along the N8 and bringing this development 25 miles from the city ‘mentally’ closer too.