Cllr. Seamie Moore proposes a monument commemorating "victims of covid, famine, wars, road accidents, suicide and still births", and the area should be re-named as a Memorial Park.
Kildare County Council says a proposal for a County Memorial Park has "some merit".
Independent Naas Cllr., Seamie Moore proposed the creation of the park "in light of the Government's deferment on a decision to agree any national or county based monument to covid victims and in light of the upcoming 175 year anniversary of the 1847 Famine, that Kildare County Council seek the input by way of a public competition, into a proposal to design a multi-faced column monument to be located in the poorly enhanced Famine Graveyard in Naas.
In a motion before the October meeting of the Naas Municipal District, he added that the monument commemorate "victims of covid, famine, wars, road accidents, suicide and still births", and the area should be re-named as a Memorial Park.
KCC, in response, says the proposal was "discussed by the Directors of Planning and Strategic Development and the Director of Community and Economic Development."
The council's Civic Memorial Technical Committee will consider all applications deemed to be valid under the terms of its Civic Memorial policy, but, it says " In relation to the number of themes being commemorated, it may be too complex to incorporate all of these into one monument or location".
"The executive is proposing to hold a public consultation exercise to ascertain the public sentiment and views as to the group or groups that should be commemorated, the nature of the commemoration (monument, sculpture, memorial park, etc.) and location. Some budget has been allocated by the
Naas Municipal District Members towards the proposal and it will need to be determined if this is sufficient to provide a monument and or other commemorative feature/event/memorial park. "
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