20/06/2024
As you may have seen, Foleys has been demolished this week.
This action was not taken lightly by anyone involved and has caused sadness and distress to us as a family. Unfortunately, following the fire, the remaining walls were structually unsound. This was reported in several engineer reports and indeed by a Conservation Archaeologist Firm, whom we hired to carry out a full report.
Added to the above was the on-going vandalism that was happening to the vacant building.
Having sought advice and then going through the relevant procedures with the Authorities and Council, Planning Permission was sought and granted to have the building demolished.
Please be assured that if it were possible, Foleys would have been preserved and repaired...no one wanted that more than us.
We would like to thank the residents of Castlebellingham for their understanding in this deeply poignant time, a landmark of the village is gone. To the Tidy Towns Committee a big thank you for all your work with the beautiful paintings on our hoarding, and finally to each and everyone of you who shares a memory of Foleys in your heart, it means the world to us.
Go Raibh Maith Agat x
