An urban tree-lined treasure

Tommy Barker on a modern development adorned with ancient limes.

A NEW public road is to run through part of the current O’Brien and O’Flynn development, Maryborough Ridge, but the Douglas, Cork, scheme’s trump card is its more private and centuries’ old lime tree-lined approach avenue.

Straight as a die, and lusciously green and leafy right now, this avenue runs for 100 metres or more off Maryborough Hill, and had been the centre point of a dairy farm, Cotters’, before the zoned land was bought up by O’Brien and O’Flynn. They will end up building over 1,000 homes on this edge-of-Douglas location, first in the now-completed Maryborough Woods, and now on another land bank at Maryborough Ridge, half a mile or so further out this road.