Rhyming house sales?

THERE’S rhyme and reason to a Killarney new homes scheme — it is called after one of Ireland’s early 20th century poets.

Áit Ledwidge is on the upmarket Woodlawn Road, and is named in honour of the poet Francis Ledwidge, born in Slane, who died in the battle of Ypres in 1917. His name stands with WW1 poets like Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke and Wilfed Owen in depicting the senseless slaughters in Europe’s trenches.

Trench work of a milder kind came last week with the turning of the sod for this scheme of 11 houses off the Muckross Road, within walking distance of Killarney town centre.