The Enniskerry Walkers' Association is to stage a "symbolic" march across the border between Wicklow and Dublin tomorrow to highlight dwindling numbers of rights-of-way for walkers.
The route of the walk will take it across a corner of the site of the proposed new Dún Laoghaire golf course, which is to relocate from its current site under an agreement with a property developer, the Cosgrave Group.
According to Mr Niall Lenoach, chairman of the walkers' association, the right-of-way is designated in the draft Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown county development plan.
However, Mr Lenoach says warning signs advising that unauthorised people should not proceed have recently been placed on the route.
The walkers' association has welcomed the move by the county council to list and protect the rights-of-way in the its administrative area
But it is concerned that the rights-of-way which cross the border into Wicklow are not similarly protected in the draft Wicklow development plan.
"Sunday's walk is to highlight a right-of-way we feel is under threat, in the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown area, which does have protection," said Mr Lenoach.
The association has also called on Wicklow County Council to offer protection to rights-of-way in the forthcoming draft of the Wicklow county development plan.
Tomorrow's walk will start at 10 a.m. from the Countybrook stream at the western end of the Ballyman Road near Enniskerry.
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