An Bord Pleanala has added an island to Oileáin. This is a first. Now there are 406.
Planning permission has been granted on appeal for deep southern Ireland\'s first crematorium to be set up in the former gunpowder store on Rocky Island in Cork Harbour.
What was a minor footnote to Haulbowline Island (the bridge to which spans onto and off of Rocky) is now a free standing fully fledged indexable island.
If only there were music to this Bulletin Board!
DWalsh
Rocky Island
W793-650 Sheet 87
Haulbowline Island is joined to the mainland near Ringaskiddy on its S side by a road bridge. The bridge spans to and from Rocky Island. The road bisects the island. Rocky received planning permission for use as a crematorium in late 2006. The crematorium will be W of the road and parking E.
High rocky and fortified, the summit is a big tent shaped rock in the middle. Its triple ramparts and central citadel were a gunpowder store from 1808. The outer trenches were lit by candles recessed into hollows in the wall for safety. Unoccupied 1920s to 1964, Irish Steel built the bridge when it took over, and it was storage until 2001.
Rocky is always landable because the bridge supports give shelter, especially on the landward Ringaskiddy side where the rocks are shelving.