http://www.kilkennycoco.ie/eng/Services/Planning/Development-Plans/Grants-available-2016.pdf

https://indd.adobe.com/view/e17cee88-0026-4e34-aa43-be4c14c3b4d3

Streetscape Paint Scheme 2016

Kilkenny County Council is pleased to announce the ‘Streetscape Paint Scheme 2016’ whereby a fund has been allocated to assist with the cost of painting the front façade of commercial / business buildings and/or hand painted shop signage within the          Municipal District of Kilkenny City – East & West, subject to terms and conditions.

This Municipal District includes amongst others, such towns and villages as Callan, Thomastown, Ballyhale, Bennettsbridge, Dungarvan and Graignamanagh, etc.  However, please contact the undersigned for confirmation of your town / village if you are unsure whether it is included in the relevant Municipal District.  Kilkenny City is also included in this year’s scheme.

If the scheme is oversubscribed those applicants eligible to continue in the application process will be randomly selected.

Applications are welcome throughout the year subject to funding being available.

Application Forms and further particulars may be obtained from the Property Section, Kilkenny County Council, C/o City Hall, High Street, Kilkenny.  Contact – Tel 056 779 4534 or trevor.byrne@kilkennycoco.ie.

Listen to how Kilkenny schoolchildren perceive their local heritage through a collection of wonderful poems written by the children and performed on BEAT 102-103FM.   The “My Heritage” poetry programme was created and co-ordinated by Kilkenny Education Centre and the Heritage Office of Kilkenny County Council with co-funding from the Heritage Council. Pupils in primary schools in Counties Kilkenny, Carlow, and Tipperary were invited, with the support of their teachers, to write a poem under one of four different themes (My Nature: My Ancestors: My Waterways and Rivers: My Architecture).  2400 poems were submitted and 71 poems were selected to be included in a beautiful book called “My Heritage”.

A diverse range of poems from “My Nanny” to “The Cattle Drover and “The Bog River” explore, in the children’s own words what they feel about their local heritage.

A 2015 Calendar was also produced.

All of the Kilkenny children whose poems were in the publication were invited to record their poem and these were aired on Beat radio in Spring 2016.

To listen to children reading their poems click on the photos below:

Amy Byrne – Peggy Hughes’

Cathal Kearney – Bones and Stones

Owen Pheasey – The Creamery

Sophie Byrne – Castlemorris Lodge

Ruairí Phelan – The Cattle Drover

Leo Alyward – Wood

Ted Dunne – Rivers

Eoin Brennan – My Family

Aidan Ryan – My Ancestors

Alexandra Brennan – My Nanny

Anna Cleere -My Ancestors

Anthony Colclough – My Family Tree

Keelan Byrne – The Bog

Luke Ryan – All New

Grace O’ Sullivan – Kitty Doheny: My Nanny

Ella Cushen – My Nature

Lily Mackey – Snowdrops

Rachael O’ Meara – The Woods

Shay Maher – Not Yet

Rory Kelleher – My Ancestors

Zach Flynn – My Bug

Daniel Valadkevich – The Water Pressure Tower

Eimear Davis – Wonderful Water

James Aylward – The Bog River

Kate McCluskey – Boglands

Oisín Keyes – Life of Mr. Fish

Sarah Brophy – The River Story

Laura Flynn – Granny’s Ring

Emma Marnell – My Grandad’s Old Torch