A great day for Kilkenny as riverside park and skatepark officially opened Former and Current Elected Members of Kilkenny County Council and Kilkenny Borough Council. F
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Kilkenny s new Riverside Garden and Skatepark is officially open.
Marrying the old with the new, the riverside garden leads us through the former St Francis Abbey Brewery and into a modern skatepark that has been designed for and by our own skateboarding community who now have a park of their own
The project provides a riverside walk from the Tea Houses at Bateman Quay to Greensbridge, with a temporary walkway provided in the area of the planned new Urban Park around St. Francis Abbey.
Pardon the weeds we are feeding the bees, says Kilkenny council
Helping pollinators: A number of areas identified where frequency of mowing will be reduced, including one side of ring road
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Ned Hennessy, parks department, KCC; Mayor John Coonan; Claire Goodwin, executive landscape architect, KCC; Frank Stafford, senior engineer, KCC; Cathaoirleach Andrew McGuinness, Martin Gaffney );
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If you noticed a few green areas around Kilkenny where the grass is a little longer and the dandelions a little more plentiful than usual this time of year, it’s for a very good reason.
The council’s parks department are aiming to reduce the frequency of mowing in areas under their remit in support of important pollinators. Reduced mowing allows wild flowers already in the grass to bloom and provide a valuable food source for pollinators.