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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

QUESTION NO. 7

QUESTION: Councillor E. O'Brien

"To ask the Council to agree to meet with a delegation of residents from Palmerstown at the site of the Mill Lane Cemetery to discuss proposals of residents relating to the upkeep of the cemetery and buildings thereon and the findings of a Conservation report commissioned by the County Council. The meeting should be attended by the following persons;

a) Representatives of the Parks Department

b) County Architect or a representative of the architects department

c) Heritage officer?"

REPLY:

On foot of the Conservation Report completed for St. Catherine’s Church and Graveyard, Palmerstown the Councils Architectural Conservation Officer has engaged a Conservation Engineer to survey the boundary wall of the site and the Church Structure so that specifications for remedial repair and stabilisation works can be carried out. In order for the Conservation Engineer to carry out a full survey of the structures some vegetation clearance had to be carried out. This was completed during March/April 2015.

The conservation engineers report and specification is due back within the next two weeks once this has been received a programme of works will be put in place and conservation contractors engaged by the Councils Architectural Conservation Officer. On the finalising of a work programme for the site the Councils Architectural Conservation Officer would be happy to meet on site along with a representative of the Public Realm Section, Environmental Services who has been involved in these works to date.