Park garden to be developed

Beginning development of the garden behind the lowered wall of the CPC grounds will be the primary project for Kilcullen Community Action in 2014, writes Brian Byrne.

This was decided at the most recent meeting of KCA, at which a suggestion that members should look at similar community gardens in their travels around the country was also agreed.

KCA chair Esther Kiely suggested that the project — a follow on from the organisation's lowering of the former convent's wall in association with the Cross & Passion College — should be done in stages if necessary. "Even if we got the area cleared this year, killing anything that needs killing when growth starts again, it will be a start," she said, adding that the rebuilding of a path around the garden can wait until funding is available.

Noel Clare said that he had already put in an application for a grant for the project, for which a basic plan has already been drawn up by a local landscape specialist. The application is to a private organisation which has put up a €1m fund, to which KCA was directed by Kildare County Council.