CHANGED UTTERLY

Sir, - The bird-song was exquisite last Saturday morning at Coole Park, the place where Lady Gregory's house once stood. Only a distant rumble of traffic reached this sacred haven of the ghosts of poets.

Now a major road is to cut considerably closer to the woods between gate-lodge and park.Goodbye stillness, bird-song and sacred spirits.

Was demolishing the house not enough of a desecration? Have we learned nothing? - Yours, etc.,

GIA HOWARD,

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Salthill,

Galway.