There are concerns about parking spaces in Thurles due to a number of recent announcements.
Tipperary county council is to close the 49 space car park at the Town Park from August 6th until December 2025 to enable construction works at the site to refurbish the existing building as an 83 seat café and to install a canopy over the carpark to create an event space.
When it eventually reopens the number of spaces will be reduced to 33 including two disabled parking bays located close to the Cathedral Street entrance.
The adjacent Thurles Leisure Centre is now advising it’s patrons to use the carpark at the former Munster Hotel approximately 200m away.
Ongoing access to this car park is uncertain as it is thought that the Council and the property owner have failed to agree a new lease.
The car park is owned by Martin Healy as part of the wider Munster Hotel Complex which has been virtually totally idle for almost 20 years.
Comments on the Thurles Leisure Centre post last night indicate that the car park at the former Hotel will no longer be available from September.
Both car parks are used by patrons of the Source Arts Centre, the town park, the leisure centre, local businesses and those attending services in the nearby Cathedral of the Assumption.
The area has lost a number of car parking spaces in recent years as the management at the Mary Immaculate College in St Patrick’s Campus opposite the Cathedral no longer allows parking on the College avenue and the car park under the Source Arts Centre is closed due to anti-social behaviour at the location including a small fire in October 2023.
