What a nice way to come to Kilkenny City, by train! Colourful flowers and a well kept station greets you. Congratulation to Irish Rail and Kilkenny CoCo who are Keeping Kilkenny Beautiful.
Category Archives: Cityscape
Summer colour
John’s Bridge and River Nore
Kilkenny Castle and River Nore
Johns Quay
Library on John’s Quay
The Parade
The Parade
Canal walk and Kilkenny Castle
Lions continue to work for Kilkenny
KKB are very appreciative of the extensive community work including painting, scraping, cleaning and beautifying undertaken by the Lions Club Kilkenny in conjunction with KKB over the summer.
All three City Historic wells newly presented
Congratulation to the Probation office, supported by KKB and Kilkenny Co Co for the wonderful re-presentation of all three of our historic wells. There has been cleaning , painting, weeding, trimming undertaken and some planting also put in place. Further planting will need to await winter rains. A traditional whitewash was used giving a brilliant white finish.
Kenny’s well
Lacken well
Canal walk well
Summer in Kilkenny
A walk around our City!
Kilkenny Watergate Theatre
Langton’s provide colour
Welcome to Kilkenny
Historic Tynan’s public house
Kilkenny Castle blooms
High street train!
Colour on High street.
Train through High street
Take another look at our city ring road
The City Ring road extends to some 7 Km from Castlecomer rd. to the callan rd. with extensive attractive planting and some 10 roundabouts all with individual plantingdesigns.
The attractive for the 6 spot Burnet moth Zygaena filipendulae Click here for short video of moth
Castlecomer roundabout with sustainable planting, the adjacent road banks have many wild flowers.
Rare orchids are being protected and we are working to improve their habitat.
this flower is particularly attractive for the 6 spot Burnet moth Zygaena filipendulae
Hebron motorway access roundabout with sustainable perennial planting
New Orchard roundabout with colorful flowers and evergreen planting.
Ring road with edge only trimmed with further zone of grassland and native species trees
Colorful wild flower edges to the road.
Deep clean under way!
Why not take part in our KKB deep clean “spring cleans ” as part of the Kilkenny City National Spring Clean events! Our aim is to go deep into the bushes and verges and concentrate in particular on the removal of plastics which are not biodegradable.
The statistics tells how bad it can be on our County roads due to our “disposable” society; 100 drink cans, 43 paper cups and 127 plastic bottles were found in a recent Kilkenny Co Co survey on just 1km of country roadside! It is interesting to note that no plastic bags were listed. The 15c tax on each plastic bag has been a success.
Keep Kilkenny Beautiful did a plastic bag survey in Kilkenny City in 2000 and found over 200 discarded plastic bags in just one section of 1/2km roads edge.
We need the political courage to finally arrange to put a returnable 25c deposit (or more) on drink cans and plastic bottles.
For “paper” cups ( which also contain plastic) why niot consider a 25c tax an encouragement to use suddenly this “trash” is actually of value and the problem will disappear like the plastic bag !
iur City ring road cycle and walk way, spring cleaned!
Kells road path and cycle way at entry to into our City
Tree planting completed at Lacken walk
Congratulations to all who attended the tree planting near the board walk at Lacken, walk. many hundreds of trees have been planted including many native Irish species. the weather was damp but this made for good planting conditions with the ground soft and receptive to bare root tree slips. In particular we thank Dan of Tree Services Ireland who coordinated the event and whose aim is to plant two trees for every one tree removed!
Tea and coffee station!
Planting on a slope,
Happy dog day!
Streetscape Painting scheme launched
The 2018 Streetscape painting scheme has been launched, why not work to Keep Kilkenny Beautiful and get your building painted. Present Kilkenny city at its best. If you need help with your application please contact KKB at mail@keepkilkennybeautiful.com or see also our contacts page. Alternatively link directly to the Kilkenny Co Co web page: click here!
