The 2025 KKB annual awards took place at Langton’s Ballroom on the 21st October 2025. Congratulations to all our Overall award recipients for 2025 which were all well deserved.
Overall Winner:- Private Garden awards
Liam & Geraldine O’Neill, 
Cedarwood Close
Best overall estate 2025
Melville Heights
There has been a wonderful 2025 Arts Festival in Kilkenny this year. the weather has been good and our city is looking great!
There has been great activity and many events organised by KKB, Lions Club other voluntary groups and resident associations as the days get longer. Our many volunteers are enjoying a mix of activities which are taking place on a regular basis (Tuesdays and Thursdays between 7pm and 9 pm )and also on regular basis on Saturdays between 10am and 12 noon. All locations to meet and dates are broadcast once the weather forecast is known each week.
All activities are posted on our KKB News & KKB Biodiversity whatsapp pages for those who are registered. We also have regular news items on our Keep Kilkenny Beautiful Facebook page. Whether its control of invasive plant species, new planting, painting and repairing, trimming, cleaning or picking it’s all helping to Keep Kilkenny Beautiful.
Why not join our team?
What a great time to visit Kilkenny City ! Welcome to all our visitors- working to keep Kilkenny beautiful for all!
City night…. and day
Join the fun !
A very informative video has been developed by KKB member Fabian Gaspari, with photographs by Dylan Vaughan which chronicles the Closh Times Mural development during 2024.. …enjoy! Click here for link to you tube video….enjoy!
Work continues at the Closh with the planting of 20,000 spring pollinator bulbs completed. we look forward to a colourful spring!
As the evenings draw in, Yulefest 2024 kicks off on the Parade and around the City
Francis Mc Manus sq., lane way link to car park. The mural was completed in cooperation with local residents, Ossory Youth and Kilkenny CoCo. We also produced a 2 minute video to the work being undertaken and a commentary click here
The detailed design work started with design workshops and the erection of posters !
Some concept pieces put together at the mural workshop included geometric shapes with repeating patterns
Getting the design right at the lane
A great KKB community event too place with the launch of the Closh Times Mural at the Closh.
The mural project was supported by KKB, CKETB, and the Kilkenny Volunteer centre. Graham Carew artist designed the mural. Keep Kilkenny Beautiful have been working with the local community over the last number of years to develop a new biodiversity garden and mural in the area. The mural depicts scenes from the rising, Civil War and more contemporary images. The launch took place as part of Heritage week 2024 in Kilkenny. St Mary’s Centre also hosted a reception following the launch. 
Great to tour around Kilkenny during arts festival and enjoy the many parks and venues.!
