Reopening of walk in historic town in Tipperary has been welcomed

The reopening of Bishop's Walk, linking the Rock of Cashel with the town centre, has been welcomed by local resident Tom Wood.

He says that if a plaque is to be erected with the history of the Bishop's Walk, then the following should be of interest -

"Recently I came across the content of a letter dated April 7 1735 from Theophilius Bolton, Archbishop of Cashel, to his friend Jonathan Swift, author, poet, cleric and Dean of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, where he writes;

'I am now wholly employed in digging up rocks and making the way easier to my church; which, if I can succeed in, I design to repair a very venerable old fabric, that was built here in the time of our ignorant, as we are pleased to call them, ancestors'.

Archbishop Bolton had only moved to his new residence, the Cashel Palace, a few years earlier, and was still using part of the Cathedral on the Rock for service.

"He died in 1744. Jonathan Swift died in 1745".