Calls made for council to clear 'terrible and disgusting entrance' of town in Tipperary

A derelict site is ruining the landscape at the entrance of Cashel, according to Independent Cllr Liam Browne. Cllr Browne raised the issue at the recent monthly meeting of the Tipperary/Cahir/Cashel Municipal District.

Cllr Browne explained his concerns, saying: “The entrance from the M8 into Cashel town is terrible. There’s a derelict entrance into the town and it’s the main entrance now from the motorway.

"This has been going on for years and I’m not sure if it’s a council issue or a council dealing with a private landowner issue, we cannot continue to have that persist into the future because of the effect it’s having.

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"I’ve had people in Cashel tell me that people are telling them that they’re not inclined to go into the town in Cashel because the first thing you see is a derelict site and it puts them off.

“We have a fantastic town, we have a tidy towns group that do huge work, we have council workers who do huge work, they do absolute brilliant work. But yet the very first site we see in Cashel is an absolutely terrible and disgusting site,” he said.

Cllr Browne then said that he was worried that visitors to Cashel would leave with a bad impression of the town after seeing the derelict site at the town’s entrance.

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He asked the meeting if some plan could be put in place to address these issues and help enhance the town's landscape at this site.

He said that the issue has persisted for years and urged that “something needed to be done once and for all.”

A spokesperson for the council’s environmental section said that district staff themselves are very conscious of the issue and that the environmental section will support the district with whatever measures can be done to solve this issue.