Green light for town centre housing scheme

November 1990

Work starts on an inner-town development scheme to build six houses on a site at Defenders’ Row which has been vacant for years.

The cost is approximately £150,000, and the contract has been awarded to builder Peadar Sheils, Lurgankeel, Kilcurry.

Development of the site had dragged on for some time as Dundalk Urban Council had to come up with a design to satisfy the Department of the Environment but work finally gets underway and should be completed by next September.

Meanwhile, it is hoped to iron out the position regarding an 11-house scheme, costing approximately £350,000, at James Street/Union Street to that a start can be made before Christmas.

And the documentation is being prepared for a Moorland development of nine houses in order for it to go to tender in January or February.

There has been a flurry of local authority schemes in Dundalk over recent weeks as approval has come through from the Department of the Environment following lengthy periods of preparation.

Contractors J.P. Castle, Castle Road, are making great progress with a project for the enhancement of an area around St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Roden Place, which is being funded by the International Fund for Ireland, the Department of the Environment and Dundalk Urban Council.

During the work a well is discovered opposite Mullen’s Takeaway, which is thought could have been a source for the Old Distillery. It is about eight feet deep and contains four feet of water.

In Seatown, W.P. Baldwin & Sons Ltd. are laying a new water main which has resulted in badly-needed new footpaths.