Baltinglass Tidy Towns

23/06/2026

Yes, we know Himalayan balsam. Volunteers worked to remove HB from Baltinglass. And Baltinglass Tidy Towns has looked for funding to remove more.

22/06/2026

Join TIDY TOWNS on Tuesday for Tasks and Tea.
Yes, we have been asking a LOT, and tomorrow we'd like to invite volunteers to sit in the beautiful Ukraininan Hub (after a little bit of work)

After completing our work on Tuesday, we invite everyone to visit the updated summer room near the Ukrainian hub. Tea, coffee and cake will be waiting for committee members and volunteers. ☕️🥧🫖
We will be meeting again on Tuesday evening at 6pm at the lock-up on Main Street.

This week, we ask for you to come and join in to tackle the following tasks:
•⁠ ⁠Replant one of the library pots and one of the round pots near the McAllister statue.
•⁠ ⁠Water planters and beds around town
•⁠ ⁠Prune the evergreen shrubs in the granite planters outside SuperValu, and add compost and fresh bedding.
•⁠ ⁠Replace the turf border at one of the Credit Union beds.
•⁠ ⁠Clear grass and w**ds around the traffic hazard bollards on Dublin Road.
•⁠ ⁠Widen and w**d the bases of the four cherry trees in the berm curves at Clough Cross, then add compost and mulch.

We'd also appreciate your help with litter picks around town, especially at Church Lane and Weir Park, during this hot spell

If anyone is walking through the town park or Weir Park during this hot spell, please consider doing a quick litter pick to help maintain our lovely public spaces which we are so lucky to have.😊

18/06/2026

Here at Baltinglass Tidy Towns we are sending good wishes to Dunlavin Festival of Arts
The programme this year is full of new, engaging, inspiring art- and PLANTS are everywhere.

16/06/2026

Volunteers from Baltinglass Tidy Towns will be meeting tonight at 6 at the lock up near Mc Allister. If you have enliven MINUTES to spare, please join us to grab some litter or pull a few w**ds. We have been planting a trying and we just need a last little bit of help.
The JUDGING is going on this month and Baltinglass is looking really well...justca few w**ds and litter to get GONE.
JOIN US, PLEASE and next week we'll be doing THANK YOU teas, coffees and biscuits.

12/06/2026

With Rathvilly Garden Centre Carlow – We Baltinglass Tidy Towns just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉
They give great planting advice and share their EXPERTISE.
Also, they kindly donated a compost with SEAWEED that will give the plants a lot of pep in their step.

11/06/2026

Here is a picture from this week's WICKLOW PEOPLE of the HILLFORT project at Cruinniu na nOg.
In the picture are Cllr Avril Cronin, Joan Murtagh from Tidy Towns, Martina Gibbons, Vice Principal and Mairéad Hennessy , Principal of Scoil Naomh Iosaf, our principal, Jenny Sherwin Arts Officer, Mairead Kelly, author and historian and Liliia Krtcgenko, lead artist.
Thanks Baltinglass Matters for putting us in the paper.

Recycling at Supermarkets

10/06/2026

There are many clever ways to make a beautiful garden with colourful borders. At Baltinglass Tidy Towns we often get compost, loading up beds with carefully chosen flowers and grasses from Rathvilly Garden Centre Carlow. This year these include Nicotiana, grasses, nemesias, nadines and salvias.
Salvia's and Campanula were also donated by Supervalu Gillespie Baltinglass.
A big THANK YOU to all volunteers who helped us plant!