23-05-2025
Popular Tipperary landmark to get new lease of life with funding allocated for restoration
The Town Clock in Carrick-on-Suir has been awarded funding under the Built Heritage Investment Scheme for upgrade works to the landmark.
The local landmark has fallen into disrepair in recent years, with councillor Kieran Bourke raising the issue at past meetings.
At the May meeting of the Carrick-on-Suir Municipal District (MD), it was confirmed that €9,000 in funding had been allocated to carry out works on the town's landmark.
The Carrick-on-Suir MD have also allocated €10,000 towards the project from their municipal funding allowance.
Plans for the restoration works on the clock are now complete, with the National Monuments Service also having been served with notice of intention to carry out works.
The next step, councillors were informed at May's MD meeting, is for a bat survey to be carried out to ensure that any works on the landmark don't disturb any bats that may be living within the clock itself.
Works to provide safe access for anyone working on the clock will be the first to take place, followed by getting the clock itself working again, as well as restoration works to the timber louvres that sit on top of the clock tower.
Works on the masonry and the leadwork on the historic clock will be carried out at a later date, subject to additional funding from the Built Heritage Investment Scheme, councillors at the meeting were also informed.
"It's a slow process, even the National Monuments Service, we must stand down for two months before we do what's in the notification, but in the meantime we'll get the bat survey done and and get all the works done, but it's lined up,' the district administrator told the meeting.
