A period fountain is all that remains on Gorey’s Grattan Street after a stone seat was recently removed. Pic: Christy Farrell.

The disappearance of a listed piece of period street furniture at Grattan Street, Gorey, last week, has caused an outcry from some local families and the matter is under investigation by the planning section of Wexford County Council.

At the end of the street was a concrete seat, known as ‘the stone’; a place where people would sit and reminisce, bask in the summer evening sunshine commenting on the world as it went by, part of the original street furniture that grew from tradition where the events of ‘Old Gorey’ were discussed, criticised, but never forgotten.

Recently, this much-loved landmark was consigned to rubble and carried away in in a truck.

Full story this week in THE GOREY ECHO.