Selling Blackberry Lane By The Field

Another one bites the money lust…?

t’s incredible to think that, jump back just forty years, and there were only twelve houses on the half-mile stretch of Blackberry Lane in Delgany.

Today, there seems to be about 4,237, give or take.

And about 4,233 of those houses would appear to be down to the diligent plotting of one woman who no longer actually lives there, but, from her quite-possibly gold-plated apartment in Greystones, has slowly but surely been making a quilt of new domiciles out of her family’s old farmland, field by field.

Having filled one side of Blackberry Lane at the N11 end to near-full capacity – another plot has gone on the market this week for €395,000 – there’s the very real danger that the great big field known as Cherry’s Brow on the other might just be next. 

Worryingly, our budding property typhoon has previously filed for planning permission on this highly-visible hill summit that overlooks Barry’s Bridge and Glen Of The Downs a total of four times. Which definitely counts as a slappable offence.

And the little fecker will no doubt try again. Especially given her success in turning her end of Blackberry Lane into an estate. Then again, maybe there’s a bigger player at work here…?

Either way, here’s hoping that local planning officers will recognise the importance of keeping the odd field here and there, so we can still qualify as The Garden Of Ireland. As opposed to The Garden Patio Of Ireland.