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Royal canal ashtown "private property" signs

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  • 19-04-2015 10:30pm
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    DublinDilbert
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    I was wondering if anyone knows the background to the hand painted signs appearing along the canal at ashtown? Also there's a similar sign saying kens site up at the train crossing.

    There's a guy hanging around in a jeep daily, I moved in to the side of the path so he could pass one morning last week and he just stared at me as he passed.


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    Rosser
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    Spotted those myself, there was a house there years ago and the site of two old schools at the back of the petrol station but I thought the land was in public ownership now.


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    daymobrew
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    DublinDilbert wrote: »
    There's a guy hanging around in a jeep daily, I moved in to the side of the path so he could pass one morning last week and he just stared at me as he passed.
    AFAIK there is a small block of private land on the Ashtown side of the Navan Road Parkway train station.

    You should contact Waterways Ireland on 01-868-0148 (their office at Ashtown roundabout) and express your safety concerns that a jeep is driving along the towpath. While he may be permitted, Waterways Ireland might have a word with him.


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    Gaspode
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    There is a private plot there alright, I remember when it was up for sale and vaguely considering buying it myself but the access problems and the general swampiness of the plot put me off. I'd imagine there is an existing right of way there allowing access to the site, so he'd be within his rights to drive up to it. I think this is where the so called 'Castleknock Allotments' were to be sited, same guy anyway akaik.


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    daymobrew
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    Gaspode wrote: »
    I'd imagine there is an existing right of way there allowing access to the site, so he'd be within his rights to drive up to it.
    That's what I thought, though he should behave appropriately as he is driving on a pedestrianised route.


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    fiacha
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    That chap lives in Ashtown, and is actually very sound to chat to. Maybe the signs have something to do with Insurance requirements ? At least he hasn't stuck a metal fence up and covered the place in tarmac :)


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    namoosh
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    Spoke to him yesterday, he owns the land up as far as the train station, he's all right once you get talking to him. He was telling me that he has a right of way up as far as the barrier (that's why its there). When they constructed the walkway he commissioned a health and safety report that concluded that it was too narrow from his land to Ashtown to accommodate all the traffic but they went ahead without widening it. He's been driving up there since he bought the land and now people are looking at him as if he has no right to be there.


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    DublinDilbert
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    namoosh wrote: »
    Spoke to him yesterday, he owns the land up as far as the train station, he's all right once you get talking to him. He was telling me that he has a right of way up as far as the barrier (that's why its there). When they constructed the walkway he commissioned a health and safety report that concluded that it was too narrow from his land to Ashtown to accommodate all the traffic but they went ahead without widening it. He's been driving up there since he bought the land and now people are looking at him as if he has no right to be there.


    The problem is cause the barrier is so far up people can drive up and dump anything they want. It looks like he isn't helping the situation with his horse box up on blocks.


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    namoosh
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    DublinDilbert wrote: »
    The problem is cause the barrier is so far up people can drive up and dump anything they want. It looks like he isn't helping the situation with his horse box up on blocks.

    he must have heard you, went for a walk there this eve and its gone!!


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