Re: Re: Potato Market

No immediate plans for Potato Market (Limerick Independent)

by Rachael Finucane

THERE are no immediate plans to develop the Potato Market, according to the chairman of the Limerick Market Trustees after a city councillor called for the historic area to be “changed” for the better, John Gilligan—who sits on the market trustees board—said that he thinks “we should take the wall around the entire Potato Market down and the stone pillars could be incorporated into some kind of feature on the site. The Vikings landed in that area and we don’t have a monument or anything to mark that”. He added that he would like to see “a plaza” on the site in front of City Hall and hopes to discuss it with the market trustees. Cllr Maurice Quinlivan agreed with his colleague and said that he does “not believe it should be a listed structure”.

David O’Mahony said that the group is going to appeal any move by the city council to make any part of the Potato Market a protected structure as part of the City Development Plan process but emphasised that this is not for any specific purpose. “If the Potato Market was a listed structure, it could affect future development of it. The option is always there. It has been looked at over the last 20 years in a number of different ways but there has been no concrete development plan attached to it for 10 or 15 years.

That doesn’t mean to say that once the Milk Market development is finished that the focus wouldn’t be on the only other remaining site owned by the market trustees.: He added that the Milk Market redevelopment is “going very well” and it is hoped that it will be open by early summer.

John Gilligan . . . . . The Vikings landed in that area and we don’t have a monument or anything to mark that . . . . . .

@gunter wrote:

It deserves to be more than a surface car park, that’s for sure.

Hmmmm . . . . . I suppose we could give all the owners of Viking-made cars (Volvo, Saab) a parking discount instead. 😉

David O’Mahony . . . . . . but there has been no concrete development plan attached to it for 10 or 15 years.

The proposals posted on this thread would suggest otherwise! :confused: