| | ireland.com - The Irish Times - Thu, Jun 23, 2005 - Banner County flags the way forward with awards |
 | | And Clare County Council deserves enormous credit for recognising this by becoming the first local authority in Ireland to inaugurate an awards scheme to foster and reward excellence in the built environment and raise public awareness of good design and conservation. |
 | | Those of us who served on the Clare Design and Conservation Awards jury were certainly impressed by several of the projects we short-listed - none more so than the remarkable restoration of a three-storey 17th century house near Ennis, which had lain in ruins for more than 100 years, roofless and overgrown with ivy. |
 | | The jury for the awards consisted of Cathal O'Neill, former professor of architecture at UCD; Billy Houlihan, Cork County Architect; Freddie O'Dwyer, architectural historian and senior architect with the Department of the Environment; Gabrielle McKeown, senior planning adviser in the DoE, and Frank McDonald. |
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