Sir, - Stand at the mountain pass between Dunquin and Ventry on the Dingle Peninsula and you can see today essentially what the young Maurice O'Sullivan saw more than 80 years ago and described in Twenty Years A-Growing:
"We had a brilliant view before our eyes, southwards over the parish of Ventry. . .green fields covered in flowers on either side of us, a lonely house here and there away at the foot of the mountain, Ventry harbour to the south-east, lying still, three or four sailing-boats at anchor, and a curragh or two creeping like beetles across the water, the mountains beyond nodding their heads one above the other."
The proposed holiday complex of 58 two-storey houses, a restaurant, bar, leisure centre, tennis courts and parking areas, recently described in your pages, will be located squarely at the center of O'Sullivan's vista. - Yours, etc.,
Chet Raymo,
Ventry, Co Kerry.