Suggestion for toilets at Ladestown

A derelict and vacant fisheries building at Ladestown, Lough Ennell, should be renovated and used for public toilets, according to Cllr Aoife Davitt.

Speaking at the January meeting of the Municipal District of Mullingar Kinnegad, she said that would save the council spending money on portable toilets.

Cllr Hazel Smyth said it could be used as changing facilities if the toilets suggestion did not work.

District engineer, Pat Kavanagh, said a sewage treatment plant would be needed and he would be slow to install one that close to the lake.

There would be a cost to maintaining permanent toilets too and, unlike mobile toilets, they could not be moved around as necessary. The building could possibly be used for some other purpose.

Cllr Andrew Duncan thought there was a septic tank there already.

He felt Ladestown was probably the best lakeshore amenity that is underdeveloped in the area and, long term, we are going to have “to bite the bullet” and do it.

Cllr Davitt asked that a feasibility study be done, and further investigation carried out.