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CLARE COUNTY Council has raised “serious concerns” over plans by west Clare businessman Jackie Whelan to construct Ireland’s largest rail and road museum at Moyasta in west Clare.

Last August, Mr Whelan realised his dream of bringing back the rebuilt 117-year-old Slieve Callan train engine to operate on 2.5km of the restored west Clare railway at Moyasta.