Info leaflet on Kilcullen mooted

The possibility of producing a simple leaflet outlining places to go in Kilcullen for short term visitor was raised at the recent meeting of Kilcullen 2017, writes Brian Byrne.

It was suggested during a discussion centering on providing car and bus parking directions with a view to encouraging them to stop in the town.

The matter of public toilets, or the lack of them, was also raised.

“If a bus load of tourists arrives in town, there’s nowhere for it to park,” PJ Fagan said, kicking off a discussion on what locations might be explored to use for the purpose.

Esther Kiely, at the meeting on behalf of Kilcullen Community Action, noted that on a recent Saturday morning a coach load of French tourists had walked through the town having stopped unexpectedly. Their coach had actually parked outside Steve’s Daybreak store on the way out of town.

“There was nowhere they could find information on where to go,” she said. “There’s a need for something like an information board at a central location.” She added that the Heritage Centre might have been a point of contact, except that it isn’t open on a Saturday.

This prompted the discussion of a leaflet, which could be available in all local businesses and which would offer simple background and directions to services such as food and drink, and points of interest such as the Valley Park and the Dun Ailinne Interpretive Park.

Kilcullen 2012 is the group set up to further the Development Plan that came from the Community Survey last autumn, commissioned by Kilcullen Community Action.