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This week (25th.May 2000) large machines and mechanical diggers moved onto land known as the Fairfield to prepare the ground for the building of new houses which are to be erected over the next few months and also possibly on some adjoining land at the other side of Hospital Lane.

When this happens the view from New Street of the Catholic Cathedral, well known to ‘Botany’ people the world over since the original high wall around the field was lowered over twenty years ago will be no more.

Not everyone is happy with the plans for this latest housing development and some older residents still remember with annoyance the closing of the old Lismore railway station which in the early part of the last century welcomed King Edward to the town.

‘We were told back in the 1960s that train travel was uneconomic and that the tearing up of miles of railway tracks in and around County Waterford was necessary, said one local resident whose house overlooks the Fairfield, but lots of people wish there was a station here today.’

‘I feel it would have been much better to have built a Millennium Park there instead of a housing estate, she added.

Lets hope that this new housing development in Lismore will be done with the utmost sensitivity and respect for this ancient monastic town, or St Carthage who founded the place around 636 AD may not be the only one likely to turn in his grave!.

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