A Garda investigation is underway following the discovery of a body in North Clare.
The body of the man in his 50s was discovered in a campervan in Lahinch yesterday afternoon.
Emergency services were alerted around twenty past three yesterday afternoon and Gardaí were dispatched to a campervan parked in the carpark at Lahinch.
Gardaí were unable to gain access to the vehicle and requested assistance from the fire service.
Two units of Clare County Fire and Rescue service from Ennistymon station were mobilised to the incident along with National Ambulance Service paramedics.
At the time, the campervan had been parked in the carpark adjacent to the popular promenade in Lahinch.
After gaining access to the vehicle emergency services found the body of a man in his 50s inside.
Gardaí sealed off the scene, while fire service personnel erected privacy screens around the vehicle, which was located next to where hundreds of people were walking the prom.
Gardaí spoke with the occupants of other campervans in the area in an effort to establish a timeline for the man’s movements, but it’s not yet clear how long the man was in the campervan before he was found.
The campervan was removed from the scene at around 4 o’clock, while the man’s body was later taken to the mortuary at University Hospital Limerick where a post-mortem examination will be carried out later.
It’s understood the death is not being treated as suspicious, but as a tragic incident.
