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Campaign to protect round tower

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2004 / June 21 2004: Campaign to protect round tower

One of Ireland's oldest intact round towers could suffer serious structural damage and be "diminished" as a national monument, if South Dublin County Council sanctions a proposed commercial development on the site, according to preservationists. Some 1,200 people attended a rally in Clondalkin village yesterday in protest at the proposed development at the 8th-century round tower, the area's most famous historical landmark. An application for planning permission for a bar/restaurant and apartments on a 0.4 acre site within metres of the tower was put before the council last week. The group is seeking to have the site landscaped as a village park with a heritage centre in an adjoining protected cottage and intends to lodge an objection to the commercial development with the council before July 19th.

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