Christy's public house. Copyright: Keep Kilkenny Beautiful.
Hibernian Hotel, Patrick street. Copyright: Keep Kilkenny Beautiful.
Butler House, Patrick st. Copyright: Keep Kilkenny Beautiful
Cleere's, Parliament st. Copyright: Keep Kilkenny Beautiful
On our longest day, 21st June 2011, a walk through our beautiful city late in the evening.
Kilkenny Castle. Copyright :Keep Kilkenny Beautiful
St Marys Cathedral in the evening sky. Copyright :Keep Kilkenny Beautiful
Kilkenny Castle from Green's Bridge reflected in the river nore. Copyright :Keep Kilkenny Beautiful Kilkenny castle main gate. Copyright :Keep Kilkenny Beautiful
Our Newly installed City Mayor David Fitzgerald has hit the ground running! Saturday June 25th at 10am the Mayor’s Massive clean up commences.! All volunteers and community groups and KKB members should meet at the Watershed, where high visibility jackets and cleaning utensils shall be distributed. groups will be dispatched to all areas of the city for a 1.5 hour city wide community clean up.
Participants in the Mayor’s massive clean up will be in with a chance to win a spot prize, while also helping their community.
All are welcome, come and assist in winning the overall Tidy towns Award title for Kilkenny this year.
St Patrick's Graveyard., Mid summer 2011. Copyright :Keep Kilkenny Beautiful
Blick von der Parade Richtung High Strasse, Die Colles Pferdetränke ist auf der Parade. Copyright Keep Kilkenny Beautiful
Die Colles Pferdetränke
1902 hat der Tierschutzverein Kilkenny die Erstellung einer Kalksteintränke zu einem Preis von 58 Pfund und 5 Schilling in Auftrag gegeben. Die Tränke wurde von Herrn Colles, Kalkwerke Maddoxtown, angefertigt.
Einzigartig ist, dass Pferde aus dem Haupttrog und Hunde aus den drei kleineren unteren Becken trinken können.
The National tidy towns 2011 competition is currently under way. Judging of Kilkenny City is likely to commence over the next few days!
Mr Sean Leahy KKB Chairman urge all in the city to make an extra effort over the next 8 week to Keep Kilkenny Beautiful!
Castle Park Kilkenny May 2011. Copyright: Keep Kilkenny Beautiful
The KKB thank Bird Watch Ireland (Mr Pat Durkin ) who has confirmed that the hawk filmed by the KKB at Dukesmeadow in early Spring was a Female sparrow hawk.
Nora Darcy, Keep Kilkenny Beautiful Committee member presented a paper titled “How Tidy Towns can Contribute Positively to your Community” at the Town Clerks Annual Conference 2011 which took place in Clonmel on the 12-13 of May 2011. The Conference was hosted by the IPA (Institute of Public Administration). The themes included:
– Creating great places to live, work and visit.
– Turning houses into homes.
– Keep Kilkenny Beautiful, because it is beautiful.
– Tidy towns, Creating a better community.
The extensive habitat improvements and work on biodiversity in Kilkenny is giving results.
Hawks patrol the skies of Kilkenny. Can you identify the species of hawk photographed by one of our Junior KKB Members in early spring 2011.
We look forward to hearing from you. You can contact the KKB from this web site at our “Leave a reply section” Good Luck!
Hawk at Dukesmeadow, early spring 2011. Copyright : Keep Kilkenny Beautiful
The KKB Children’s 2011 art competition is called “Make a Litterbug” competition for primary (5th Class) and secondary schools (Transition Year). The competition required students to form teams of up to 3 students to build their concept of a litterbug using recycled material only. The “Bug” could be no wider than 750mm and 1500mm high. The winning entry was judged to be the “Litterbug” that best demonstrates the reduce, reuse, recycle principle. The entries were required to target their message to their own age group and consider the impact of waste on their school, community and Kilkenny.
Fifth Class St. Patrick's De la Salle Boys Primary school winning entry, May 2011. Copyright : St. Patrick's De la Salle Boys Primary school
Fifth Class St. Patrick's De la Salle Boys Primary school winning entry, May 2011. Copyright: St. Patrick's De la Salle Boys Primary school
Litterbug winners from Fifth Class St. Patrick's De la Salle Boys Primary school with their teacher Mrs Reade and KKB members following the award of prizes, May 2011. Copyright : Keep Kilkenny Beautiful.
Litter bug winner made by D Galster, O Nickelson, J Coogan of transition year CBS secondary school Kilkenny under direction of C Cahill Art teacher. Copyright: CBS secondary school
Each school was required to choose a winner from within the entries in the school. The winning school entry will be put on public display in the city. The overall winners won ipod nanos for each team member.
Composting information day: Bernadette Moloney, Environmental Awareness Officer and Nora Darcy KKB at the stand.
Keep Kilkenny Beautiful in association with the Environmental Awareness Officer of Kilkenny Local Authorities discussed the great benefits of home composting with shoppers in Woodie’s DIY last Saturday the 8th April. The information stand was busy with queries of best practice and many shoppers were pleased to learn that one third of household rubbish can be easily composted.
The information stand stood beside a composting unit that Woodie’s DIY stock. Store Manager Brendan Corr was delighted to assist the Kilkenny Tidy Towns group, KKB with this unique initiative. Mr Corr expressed great interest from the very beginning in working in partnership with the local group and Kilkenny Local Authorities. He also explained that their qualified horticulturist is always on hand to deal with any customer composting queries.
KKB are active with regular litter picks throughout the city and liaise closely with dozens of residents associations in the city environs. Kilkenny City fell only two points short of the national title in 2010 so this year efforts are concentrated on other competition categories like waste minimisation to boost their competition score.
Bernadette Moloney, the Environmental Awareness Officer of Kilkenny County Council was delighted to come on board with this initiative as it ties in nicely with the current national “stop food waste” campaign which has proven that average families can spend between €700-€1,000 annually on food that’s not eaten and ends up in the household bin. Composting materials like raw vegetables, fruit, tea bags together with newspaper can divert one third of household waste from landfill so it’s a practice which is easy on the pocket and great for the environment.
For further details; contact keepkilkennybeautiful or Bernadette Moloney, Environmental Awareness Officer, Kilkenny Coco on 056-7794487 or bernadette.moloney@kilkennycoco.ie