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Bats Block Big Housing Plans | Cork News
Plans to turn Ennis’s abandoned psychiatric hospital into 171 new homes are on hold—thanks to bats. The historic site, once County Clare Lunatic Asylum and later Our Lady’s Psychiatric Hospital, is home to protected Lesser Horse-Shoe Bats. Developers need a special license to proceed and must submit a detailed rodent control plan that won’t harm the bats—or risk pushing pests into nearby neighborhoods. While the Heritage Council backs the project as a smart reuse of heritage buildings to boost housing, the council insists on resolving these ecological and public health concerns before giving…
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