Archerstown to Turtulla Road, Thurles, to Close Temporarily
Under Section 75 of the Roads Act 1993-2007, notice has been granted, giving North Tipperary County Council propose to make an order closing the following roads:-
Archerstown to Turtulla Cross, Thurles. (L4111-0 )
Cloghmartin to Turtulla Cross, Thurles. (L8018-0 )
(Click on Map image for higher definition.)
Period of Closure
From May 13th 2013 to June 28th 2013. (Both dates to be inclusive.)
Alternative Routes
Diversion for Archerstown to Turtulla Cross accessed via the N62 and the N75 and vice versa.
Diversion for Cloghmartin to Turtulla Cross accessed via the N62 and vice versa.
The purpose of this road closure is to facilitate the installation of a new water main.
Diversions are expected to be fully in place and clearly signposted, however delays on the N62 can be expected.
Slí na Sláinte translated from the Irish reads ‘Path to Health ‘ has been developed by the Irish Heart Foundation – the national heart and stroke charity – it’s the outgoing way to make walking far more enjoyable.
Already, it’s capturing the attention of young and old, not only in Ireland but in Europe and other parts of the world also. So it should, because it’s a fun, healthy way for the average adult to accumulate the recommended 30 minutes of physical activity each days of the week.
You’ll find Slí na Sláinte walking routes all over Ireland. They are marked by bright, colourful signposts which are not numbered and are situated at 1 km intervals apart. Simply follow the Km signs, set your pace to suit your enjoyment and you’ll quickly feel better and gently get fitter.
Slí na Sláinte Walk Ways In Thurles
The Green Route – Racecourse Road Slí na Sláinte is 2.0 km long or 4km return and starts at St Josephs and St Bridgets Church, Bohernanave. The route continues along Bohernanave Road, past Semple Stadium and then turns left at the junction to Castlemeadows. Continue to the Roundabout at Tipperary Institute and take left onto Racecourse Road. Continue straight out Killinan to the end of the footpath (see Racecourse on right). At mapboard return along the same route back to St. Josephs and St. Bridgets Church.
The Red Route – Slievenamon Road Sli na Sláinte is also a 2.0 km long or 4km return journey and starts at Slievenamon Road Car Park. The route continues along Slievenamon Road and then goes straight through the roundabout at Dunnes Stores Shopping Centre onto Clongour. Continue straight out past Thurles Golf Club to the top of the hill (Turtulla Cross). At the mapboard then return along the same route back to Slievenamon Road Car Park.
Walkers Take Note
(1) If you’re not in the habit of taking regular exercise, do start slowly, enjoy being out and about while gradually building up to your recommended 30 minutes walking each day.
(2) Drink a glass of water before and after your walk and, don’t forget, wear suitable comfortable shoes. Gradually warm up at the beginning and cool down towards the end. Remember, loose clothing is more comfortable and in winter, choose layers rather than thick, chunky clothes.
(3) Why not try to incorporate walking into your daily activities. Walk to work, to meetings or the shops. If you have a history of heart trouble or other significant medical illness, talk to your doctor before you start.
(4) Important: Stop if you experience unusual symptoms such as chest pain, dizziness or breathlessness, and do consult your doctor ASAP.
(5) Why not invite a good friends, family member or work colleagues to join you in your walk, for chat and a bit of banter.
One final observation, “If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.”
Extract from the poem ‘The Irish Pike‘. by poet John C. Colgan, first published in 1873.
A pike is the best of all weapons, the pride of my dear native land, If I were a soldier to-morrow, I’d have a good pike in my hand; When Cain had a row with his brother, and gave him the finishing stroke, A pike was the weapon he used, for believe me, a pike is no joke.
Chorus: A fig for the bayonet and sabres, imported from Britain and France, A fig for the thing called the rifle—our own Irish pike is the lance.
Special thanks to Rev. Fr. George Bourke AP, (Moycarkey, Littleton & Two-Mile-Borris), Thurles and Mr Gerry Bowe, Two-Mile-Borris, Thurles, for their assistance with research undertaken.
The Rev. Fr. Edmund Ryan, who succeeded Rev. Fr. John Cashin as parish priest of Moycarkey, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, was born in the year 1754 in the parish of Galboola, Littleton, Co. Tipperary.
Image shown can be viewed on left entrance peer as you enter Moycarkey Old Graveyard.
The following incident is said to be connected with his death at the early age of just 48 years.
There lived at Lacken, Littleton, Co. Tipperary, (Laken Cross situated between Littleton and the Turnpike on secondary route R639), a blacksmith named Devlin who had become involved in the manufacture of pikes* for the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Irish: Éirí Amach 1798); latter a major uprising against British rule in Ireland.
*Pikes: Long two-handed spears, (see above) wielded by foot soldiers. Each pike was fitted with a heavy wooden shaft 3 to 7.5 metres long (10 to 25 feet) and weighing approximately 2.5–6 kg (5.5–13.2 lb), and tipped by various types of leaf-shaped steel spearheads.
The then English authorities, who had been informed of Devlin’s activities, sent troops from Kilkenny city to arrest Devlin. Devlin taken unawares and terrified by the fact that the soldiers had discovered his concealed pikes, said that they had been made to order, for Fr. Edmund Ryan.
On acquiring this false information, the soldiers proceeded to Fr. Ryan’s residence at Turtulla, Thurles, but in passing through the townland of Archerstown, Thurles, one of the soldiers confided in a man of his acquaintance along the way, details of the true object of their journey into Co. Tipperary.
This man then ran across the fields by a shortcut to give warning to Fr. Ryan, who received the news while standing in front of his residence. Fr. Ryan had a sudden collapse and was immediately conveyed for safety to the house of Mr William Nicholson, (today’s (2022) Thurles Golf Club).
The latter having attended to Fr. Ryan, went in all haste to Fr. Ryan’s residence, where he found the house surrounded by soldiers. He reasoned with the commander, latter who realised that he had been misinformed by the blacksmith, gave his men the order to withdraw and so the matter was concluded.
Fr. Ryan however, did not recover from the shock and though he lingered on for some years, those years were saddened by the troubles of 1798 and it’s immediate consequences.
Today, the broken headstone of Fr. Edmund Ryan can be located, outside the North Wall behind the old church across the road from the present Church of St. Peter. The inscription on his tomb reads as follows:-
Here lies the body of the Rev’d Edmund Ryan, Parish priest of Moycarkey and Borres. During the past fourteen years, who by word and example, instructed his flock. Who sensible of their loss, by his much lamented death, have erected this monument as a public mark of their grateful respect for his pastoral visits. He died on the 7th day of December 1802* in the 48th year of his age. May he rest in peace. Amen.
[* The ‘Clonmel Herald’ newspaper reported a totally unrelated story that same year (1802): ” Dreadful fire at Thurles; 30 or 40 houses burned; fire started by boys throwing squibs. Appeal for help for the sufferers by William Nicholson(aforementioned)of Turtulla, (Thurles, Co. Tipperary).]
Destruction of Biodiversity on the Thurles Lady’s Well Right-of-Way & now destroyed Double Ditch Right-of-Way, are being denounced in Social Media threads. The threads begun by Thurles.Info and carried by @ThurlesHour demonstrate the growing feelings of lovers of our local environment and the distrust of County Councils and their officials.
Some of the remarks hereunder posted on Twitterby other people.
“County councils across Ireland don’t seem to ‘get’ nature.”
“Thurles Municipal District council got funding to design, secure planning & construct a river walk from Thomond Road to Turtulla. Landowner consent was not forthcoming. They decided to spend the money asap – removing all trees, laying down tarmac on the route of the Double Ditch!”
Biodiversity & Heritage Destroyed By Tipperary County Council & Irish National Parks and Wildlife Service, Without Any Local Consultation.
“Local authority greenway. No environmental oversight. Asphalt laid up to river. Token 2m buffer. Chain-link/welded mesh fencing down the side to ensue no critters pass. Eventually all these will need to be taken out, and the riverbanks restored.”
“Greenways are like a lottery win for quarry owners.”
“Wrecking the place.”
“What would a riverside greenway look like if it were ecologically sound? Is there an acceptable set back distance or preferred material?”
“This is happening along any path that is designated a Greenway.”
Thurles.Info now asks WHY?
Meanwhile: Attempts to contact Malcolm Noonan’s Office via email [Mos MOS@housing.gov.ie via mail3.itservices.gov.ie & malcolm.noonan@oireachtas.ie], between Sat, 22nd August 2020, and Thursday, 24th February, 2022, and on numerous other recorded occasions, fell on deaf ears. Currently staff at his constituency address; The Parade, Co. Kilkenny, do not even answer phone calls. In the past two years despite numerous attempts we have received only two “Automated Email Replies” from his office.
A Chara, Automatic reply: Destruction of Thurles Heritage Thank you for contacting the departmental office of Malcolm Noonan, T.D., Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform. Your email will be reviewed and a response will issue in due course, should one be required. Le gach dea-ghuí, Malcolm Noonan Office of the Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform
Our dealings with Mr Eamon Ryan TD have been equally ignored. Again we were sent 1 Automatic reply on Wed, 6th April 2022 and 4 on Mon, 11th April, despite being contacted only once, on each of the afore mentioned dates by myself. (So 4 staff opened it and decided to ignore the content.)
Automatic reply: Destruction of Thurles Heritage A chara, Many thanks for your email. As I am sure you can appreciate, I receive a large volume of emails on a daily basis. Your issue is important to me and myself or one of my team will be back to you as soon as possible. In the meantime, if you have a query relating to the below areas, you might find the following email addresses helpful: Matters related to Dublin Bay South constituency: eamon.ryan@oireachtas.ie Matters related to the Dept of Environment, Climate, Communications networks: minister.ryan@decc.gov.ie Eamon Ryan TD Minister for Environment, Climate, Communications and Transport.
Despite our email communications being civil, we have never spoken or received even one, single, reply from staff at Mr Eamon Ryan’s department. We did explain our problem on one occasion to a member of Mr Malcolm Noonan’s, Kilkenny Staff, who confirmed that they had received my emails in the past, but could not explain why they were not replied too.
Meanwhile, our dealings with staff at National Parks and Wildlife Service were equally disappointing. Early communications stated from NPWL stated, “Please note that if these works are part of development covered by planning permission then they are exempt from Section 40 of the Wildlife Act. John will update you on his findings in due course.”
Then NPWS service claimed they granted verbal permission to Tipperary Co. Council in late February on the grounds it was a road or other structure. Quote “However, it should also be noted that the clearance of vegetation in the course of road or other construction works or in the development or preparation of sites on which any building or other structure is intended to be provided is exempted under Section 40.”
The truth is, there was No Road; No new ConstructionWorks; No other new structures; just a small, yet valuable piece of 176 year old Thurles Heritage.
National Parks and Wildlife Service have further confirmed that because of “work stress”, they had forgotten to recognise the Mill Road address we had reported and identified in relation to breaches of Sect 40 of the Wildlife Act. Thus when asked for documentation they then confirmed, quote: – (A) “Communication between Tipperary County Council and a named Wildlife Ranger was only verbal, there is no written documentation.“ (B) “Any written communication between Tipperary County Council and the builder is in their possession, National Parks and Wildlife Service do not have same.” (C) “Furthermore any request for such information needs to follow the AIE process.“ [Latter AIE referred to is “Access to Information on the Environment”]
“Our heritage is what we have inherited from the past, to value and enjoy in the present, and to preserve and pass on to future generations. In helping shape our identity, our heritage becomes part of what we are. Our expression of this identity shows others what we value; it highlights our values and priorities. Our heritage provides clues to our past and how our society has evolved. It helps us examine our history and traditions and enables us develop an awareness about ourselves. It helps us understand and explain why we are the way we are.”
The above are not my words but the words of the Irish Heritage Council, See HERE .
Then this evening, April 20th 2022, out of the blue, we received an email in pdf format. Yes, readers I fool you not, after almost two years of waiting, it arrived from staff at Minister Malcolm Noonan’s Office, set in the form of a standardised letter, sent with the permission of Ms Danielle McDonnell, (Private Secretary to Minister Malcolm Noonan T.D.); signed by a person in his constituency office in Co. Kilkenny, latter yet another member of staff authorised to act on behalf of the same Ms Danielle McDonnell.
Mr Noonan’s almost two year old delayed communication read. Dear Mr. Willoughby, On behalf of Mr. Malcolm Noonan, T.D. Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform, I wish to refer to your emails regarding the removal of a hedgerow by Tipperary County Council at Mill Road, Thurles. The works in question were carried out to facilitate the upgrade of an existing pathway. In this instance the National Parks and Wildlife Service are satisfied that these works did not constitute a breach of Section 40 of the Wildlife Act. Yours sincerely, P.P. Danielle McDonnell (Private Secretary to Minister Malcolm Noonan T.D.).
Remarkably, Minister Malcolm Noonan’s dictated communication, failed to explain in his long awaited communicated, why Tipperary Co. Council and builders were given permission to destroy irreplaceable Thurles history, which as we previously stated, was a certain sure attraction for foreign and domestic tourism.
Same has been destroyed despite every Irish Government department; Elected Tipperary Politician and double jobbing Local Councillor, being warned exactly what was going to happen, since 2019.
So, Minister Noonan, I totally reject your recent delayed communication. I continue to seek your explanation as to why, based on historic evidence (See page 6) and a falsified Archaeological Impact Statement, that two Green Party politicians; namely you Sir and Mr Eamon Ryan failed to communicate; to fully investigate this piece of Thurles heritage and now choose to protect the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Service?
According to the Heritage Council,Quote “An important part of their work is to encourage local communities to take responsibility for and participate in the development and conservation of their heritage. Such projects help generate a greater sense of pride and belonging in the local area through increased participation…and sheer enjoyment! Cultural tourism and activity holidays on our natural landscapes and countryside continue to grow, outperforming all other tourism sectors.”
Both of you gentlemen must now reply to the question being asked, WHY?
Pre-deceased by her husband Eoin and son Neil; her passing is most sadly missed by her loving family; daughters Áine and Cáit, sons Richard and Séamus, sisters Chrissie (Dunne) and Bridie (Shanahan), brother Connie, grandchildren Kate, Elaine, Julie, Deirbhile, Sadhbh, Eoghan, Fergal and Colm, sons-in-law Jonathan and Roger, daughters-in-law Eileen, Bríd and Geraldine, sisters-in-law, nephews, nieces, extended relatives, neighbours and friends.
Requiescat in Pace.
Funeral Arrangements.
The earthly remains of Mrs Brennan will repose in Hugh Ryan’s Funeral Home, Slievenamon Road, Thurles, on Thursday evening, November 25th, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm. Her body will be received into the Abbey Church at Holycross, arriving on Friday morning, November 26th, at 11:00am for Requiem Mass at 11.30am. Interment will follow immediately afterwards in the adjoining graveyard.
For the many persons who would have liked to have attended Requiem Mass for Mrs Brennan, but are unable to do so; same can be viewed online HERE.
[NB: Due to Public Health Guidelines, regarding C-19 virus restrictions; those attending Requiem Mass will continue to observe strict adherence to social distancing, face covering, with no hand shaking.]
The extended Brennan family wish to express their appreciation for your understanding at this difficult time and have made arrangements for those wishing to send messages of condolence, to use the link shown HERE.
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