I received confirmation recently that a new pedestrian crossing on the Bluetown side of Allenwood Cross is currently undergoing detailed designs, along with traffic lights on all four approach roads. This is ultimately what we need to improve pedestrian and cyclist safety at the cross, which is unbelievably busy these days. In the meantime, please…
Category: Allenwood
Thanks to Eamonn Sheridan and his crew for the repair work done recently at the entrance to Allenwood Church and also around Allen Church. If you need any tarmacdam work done then please support this excellent local company. Eamonn Sheridan Groundworks Ltd – Tarmacadam Contractor
Construction is now complete on the new playground in Allenwood. I love the entrance sign “as Gaeilge”! There is still some work to be done on the car parking areas and access pathways to the playground, but there are no major blockers at the moment. The required paperwork will need to be signed off and…
Thanks to everyone who braved the weather to clean up their areas today and feel free to continue the good work tomorrow. We won’t give up the battle against those with no respect for our countryside. Thanks to Kildare County Council and Bord na Móna Drehid for their support.
Martina and I from the Tidy Towns met with Minister Martin Heydon at Allenwood Playground to see the progress that has been made since construction started last September. The contractor estimates the playground will be complete by the end of March or early April. This project has been running since 2016, when we took on…
The Grand Canal Greenway has been one of my main projects for the last few years and I am delighted to see that €500,000 has been allocated towards the planning and development of this amenity by Transport Infrastructure Ireland today. The Greenway will link up lots of communities in West Kildare with a proper walking…
I was on site at the new Allenwood Playground, BMX Track and multi-use gaming area at lunch time today. Construction is going well and we are on target to open this amenity in the next few months hopefully. I have been driving this project forward since 2016 with Allenwood Tidy Towns and it is the reason I am…
Thanks to our Brigid, Lorraine, and her minder, Ollie, for giving it 100% for the St. Brigid’s Walk this evening. The walk was organised by the members of Allen Area Historical & Heritage group and supported by Allen Community Hall. Thanks to the local landowners that allow us onto their property to retrace the old…
Six new driver feedback signs installed in Allenwood, Derrinturn and Coill Dubh marks my first project delivered in 2024. These signs are a good step towards making our villages safer by alerting drivers to reduce their speed on the approach roads. Thanks to our council roads team for all their work on this. Paid for…
Bord na Móna submitted a planning application to expand the Drehid Landfill facility earlier this year and it was possible for community groups and individuals to make submissions, following a public meeting in Carbury GAA. I made a 14 page submission outlining a number of key recommendations for Allenwood, Killina, Derrinturn and Dag Weld’s Cross,…