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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, May 13, 2024

QUESTION NO.39

QUESTION: Councillor F. Timmons

To ask the Chief Executive for a report into how Pilgrim paths in our county can be protected from modernisation. Pilgrim paths, such as Knockmeenagh Lane (An tSli Mhor),  were raised in the county development plan.

REPLY:

The County Development Plan has as an objective:

NCBH 17 Objective 7:

To record heritage / pilgrim pathways in South Dublin County, such as the Slí Mór in Clondalkin village, to have this record collated in a comprehensive manner, and to develop mechanisms to initiate cultural heritage discussions regarding such pathways with a view to a formal quantification, assessment, sympathetic maintenance and protection of these routes as potential features of important local heritage interest.

The Clondalkin Local Area Plan will include a Conservation Plan and Knockmeenagh Lane is being reviewed as part of the work being undertaken to inform both the Conservation Plan and the LAP.  As part of the work being undertaken for the Conservation Plan and the LAP, Heritage Walks including along Knockmeenagh Lane have been held with representatives from local heritage interest groups in Clondalkin to garner feedback.  This will inform the appropriate conservation actions for the lane.