is so little known by visitors. Places like Newgrange and the Rock of Cashel rightly get a huge amount of attention from visitors, but the OPW also has a large number of other beautiful sites, like this, that are less well known and which I am sure visitors would really enjoy. The OPW want to bring these hidden gems forward and encourage more people to visit them.” At the opening the Minister confirmed that the OPW, with the assistance of Fáilte Ireland, has plans has plans to invest further in the site at Carrick-on-Suir by recreating the historic landscaped garden to the front of the property as part of a Phase 2 project and by providing Interpretation for visitors throughout the site. The Minister said, “There is a huge opportunity here for a major increase in tourism in Carrick-on-Suir. With the support of local people and the various groups which the OPW has been working with, I am confident that there is a very bright future ahead.”
Centre photo: L-R: John McMahon, OPW Commissioner, Tommy Roche, OPW Foreman, Flora O'Mahony, OPW Architect, Minister Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran, Mrs Moran, Eamonn Rafter, OPW District Works Manager and Maurice Buckley, OPW Chairman. Below left: Ormond Castle Guide Staff with Manager, Eleanor Morrissey and OPW Chairman, Maurice Buckley. L-R: Pauline Kennedy, Paul Hearne, Eleanor Morrissey, Maurice Buckley, Emma Collins, Seamus Culbert and Frances Aherne.
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