Surely there must be enough land in Cork City for development and modernization that we don't have to disturb our ancestors graves!! To what price progress??!! I urge all of you with any concern over this to follow Donnacha's lead and start writing. To object you must cite the following numbers: T.P. 24795/00 for the Carey's Lane Development (Huguenot Cemetary) and TP 24932/01 for the John Redmond St. Development (St. Anne Shandon Cemetery) And the address to send these objections is: Town Planning Department, Cork Corporation, Abbey Court House, Georges Quay, Cork Regards, Sherri Delaney In a message dated 04/28/2001 7:14:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time, IRL-CORK-CITY-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > -------------------- > X-Message: #3 > Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:35:18 -0400 > From: Kae Lewis <Kae@chartertn.net> > To: IRL-CORK-CITY-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <B70F1806.924%Kae@chartertn.net> > Subject: Re: Cork City developement > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > I have ancestors buried at Shandon too and I am as upset as anyone else > about the possible developments. However to look at both sides of the > story, I noticed when I was in Cork City how very much in need of > modernisation the inner city was. Although the historical buildings and > cemeteries are extremely important to all of us, this has to be balanced > with the need to update the city for the good of the modern-day inhabitants > and the city economy. We have all gone off to our new-world modern and > vibrant cities and left our roots and history behind. Spare a thought for > those that still live there amongst all the decay. Here's hoping a way can > be found to modernise while at the same time retaining some of these all > important historical sites like the Shandon and Huguenot cemeteries. Other > large cities in Europe have managed quite well to balance these things. > Lets give them a chance. Kae Lewis >