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Welcome to Clonmel Allotments Association.
Please check out the latest news HERE.
We're here to help all those interested in growing their own vegetables, keeping their own chickens or even; for the more ambitious among you; fattening their own calf.
As the name suggests this site is primarily focused on Clonmel and its surroundings. There is a small but enthusiastic group of vegetable growers living in this beautiful Suir valley town. We are currently engaged in a campaign to get Clonmel borough and county councils to provide land for allotments. If you are interested in joining this campaign well you would be more than welcome we can use all the help we can get.
Please read on and don't hesitate to get in contact. We love to get feedback and welcome all contributions. Enjoy!
Latest news
News update 25th Febuary
We are happy to report that the path and water points are in place on our site. Please check out the latest campeign news HERE.
Dec 10
Success! The sod has been turned on Clonmel's pilot allotment scheme, off the Cashel Road. Workers on behalf of the council are preparing the ground and getting ready to put in the fence. The Association are meeting on 11th December at 8pm in Clonmel Resource Centre to discuss the rules and guidelines that will be used for running the allotments smoothly, and our representatives hope to meet in our steering group with the Council in the near future to set up the administrative arrangements.
The Association would like to take this opportunity to thank Clonmel Borough Council for giving this project their support. We believe this will be the one of the first public allotments outside of the greater Dublin area, and the achievement of getting to the stage of physically putting in the allotments on the ground is due to the perseverence of the allotment group, the willingness of the council to pilot the project, and the positive response from local residents. We look forward to working with everyone involved to make this a successful pilot scheme and contributing to more sustainable local communities.
Nov 05
Clonmel Allotment Group
The allotment group plan to hold a public meeting for residents and potential plot holders to discuss the issues involved and show what allotments might look like. This will be held on Thursday 6th November in Tipperary Inst. just off the Clonmel bypass at 7.30pm.
Oct 08
Clonmel Allotment Group
As we head into the winter after a challenging summer for gardeners, the Clonmel Allotment Group are still working with the Borough Council to try to get a pilot project up and running as soon as possible. A location with good potential has been identified and the group are waiting to hear back from the council to proceed this. Rising food and fuel prices and the economic downturn mean that local food-growing is coming much higher up the agenda for everyone. As part of the Clonmel Transition Town autumn workshop series, a talk and discussion on growing your own food will be held on Thursday October 16th in Clonmel library from 1-2pm. The short talk will focus on one person’s experience of growing their own fruit and veg in their very small back garden in Clonmel, followed by a discussion of the different options for growing more food locally, such as allotments, garden-share, and community gardens. All are welcome, bring your lunch!
Sept 08
This is just a quick note to let you all know that we are continuing to press for allotments in Clonmel.
The current position is that an appropriate site has been identified and we are awaiting a response from the borough council as to when they will be able to proceed with works.
We are hopeful that we will receive a response soon but as we all now appreciate, these things take longer than we would like.
We will keep you all informed of developments as the …develop.
April 29
Message board back up.
I've re-instated the message board (now called Forum) and have deleted all the evil spammers. We've had to tighten up permissions though so from now on it will be a bit more difficult to set up an account but at least we won't get anymore unwanted adverts for ...well .....things.
April 29
Message board taken down due to Spam.
Unfortunately we have had to take down the message board due to spammers, we will have it up again as soon as possible.
April 16
Successful Borough Council meeting on Monday.
Read full story HERE.
8th April 08
Clonmel Allotments Message Board goes live
We now have a message board so you can post your comments. Check out the link at the top of this page or click HERE.
April 08
Following a letter to local councillors in January from Fiona Hegarty and Mieke Muyllaert, a motion that the County and Borough Councils ‘commence the provision, on a pilot basis, of allotments/plots for cultivation by interested individuals’ was proposed and passed by both Councils at their March monthly meetings. The allotment group were delighted with the wide support that the proposal received and would like to thank all the councillors who have helped them up to now, and who have proposed and supported the motion. The minutes of the County Council meeting will appear in the next few weeks on the council's website, under the 'Councillors' section: link.
The campaigners then posted flyers at strategic locations around the town, and put a press release in the Nationalist. So far, around 10 people have expressed an interest.
A small delegation of potential allotment holders are to meet Borough Council officials on Monday 14th April to discuss how to progress the project. A meeting of interested people will be organised in the coming week to discuss everyone’s thoughts on how the allotments should be developed. Please contact Mieke at 086-8272036, mieke (at) eircom.net for more information.
Thanks to Mieke for this story
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