Tourism Schemes
Dail Éireann — 2024-04-18
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Peadar Tóibín (AON), Meath West

The Hill of Tara is of enormous significance historically and heritage wise in this country, yet when people go to the Hill of Tara, it is actually very badly managed. Most people are slipping and sliding in muck there and potentially doing damage to the monuments that exist up there. The parking and all of the services are very poor and there definitely needs to be far more work in the development of that. Slieve na Calliagh, is the site of neolithic tombs and is situated outside Oldcastle in Loughcrew. The last time I was there the roof of one of the tombs was being held up by an Acrow prop. It was falling apart at that moment in time. There is absolutely wonderful neolithic art available to touch out there, yet it is falling apart.
The Book of Kells has four parts to it. Kells obviously is part of the history of the Book of Kells and we should look to see how we can actually get one of those volumes into Kells to increase the level of tourism there.
There is also the blueway along the River Boyne. Work has been done to improve the blueway access to it. Blueway tourism itself is a big plus to the locality. We have these enormous and wonderful assets and we are not sweating those assets. Even when we make a decision to go down the route of doing something such as the Boyne greenway after 17 years, there still really has not been a shovel put in the ground in most of the length of it.

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Sitting date: 2024-04-18