Re: Re: Rock of Cashel stone conservation restoration

Doe not that awful door just sum it all up? What is a think like that doing in sopt as sacred as Cormac’s chapel? Does anybody in the Board of Works have the slightest clue as to what theya re about? Can you imagine the Italians installing something like that in the Pantheon? For Cormac’s chapel to have survived the ravages of time and history only to succumb to the Board of Works….it is just too, too tragic or perhaps fatal to bear thinking.

The thought strikes me that if the Boar of Works does not know how to look after buildings such as this, then perhaps they might try at little inter-European outsourcing and hire the Italian Beni Culturali to the job for them. Even imaginationless Cobh Town Council copped on to that one when they got themselves an Italian architect – and signs on things seem to be improving a bit since they brought in a competent Italian.