If you were stuck to depict the ancient phrase ‘a hive of activity’ these days, a snapshot of the the town of Castleisland at present would fit the bill nicely.
The extensive footpath replacement work on Main Street is still underway, the trees on the same street are being trimmed.
Kerry County Council is about to undertake a long promised street resurfacing programme of work over the next week or so.
On that note, Kerry County Council wishes to advise us that Road Resurfacing Works on Main Street, Castleisland will be undertaken between the times of 7am on Monday, October 14th until 7pm on Friday, October 18th.
Traffic Management and Parking Restrictions
Temporary Traffic Management and Parking Restrictions will be in operation for the duration of the works.
The council is upgrading the road network and our co-operation is appreciated on this matter.
We can expect delays over the course of that week and the use of cars in the town centre should be curtailed where possible.
It is believed that work will begin at Church Street corner and progress down towards Killarney Road – around the Market House and the Back-of-the-Forge and back up from the Tralee Road.
Covered in Dust in 1993
It is planned that sections of the work will be complete before the Patrick O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festival and the November 1st horse fair day will engulf the town. I suppose the old proverb ‘No pain No gain’ could be used in these circumstances.
It would remind those who were around at the time of the first Patrick O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festival in 1993 how people were leaving messages on the dust covered windscreens of cars that had been parked up for days. Lads were beginning to take the drink driving laws with a little less salt by that time – and there were no mobile phones.
The history of the development of the town is / was scored all over the footpaths now being taken up.
There was the heavy blasting for the new water works in the early 1970s, the new sewage system of the early 1990s and the under-grounding of the street lighting in the late 1990s.
We Won’t Know Ourselves
From around 2013 onwards there was the installation of the ‘Phil Hogan’ water metres to business premises up and down Main Street and up and down the country.
I wonder how long will it be before a con-saw is put on our pristime, new footpaths. We won’t know ourselves in the run up to Christmas with the snow white footpaths and the pitch black streets.
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