Baltinglass Town Team

31/08/2026

Our Economic and Tourism Subgroup will be out on the street at 6am to watch the filming. Or maybe a bit later.
Filming is going on all day.
Please park your car away from the filming areas to keep Baltinglass looking like it did i the 1950s.
Wishing the cast and crew a happy, productive day in our town.
Thanks for choosing Baltinglass for Mary Rose.

Tidy Towns and the Economic and Tourism Town Team are delighted to see our picturesque town with its intact vernacular streetscape and buildings used in director’s Colm Bairéad new 1950s set feature film Mary Rose.
The Town Team have devised a suggested colour scheme for Baltinglass drawing from our rich natural surrounds; pastel blues, greens, purples, yellows and browns.
Butter yellow featured in many of our wildflowers and a dairying heritage embedded in the life of the town, cornflower blue, a flower which once grew widely in corn and flax fields and foxglove pink provide some of the inspirations.
Textile production associated with the town and its hinterland and the use of local flowers and fauna for their dye making properties, is another source for the colour palette. Purple loosestrife gives brown and purple dyes, brambles which give us blackberries produces green, black, blue and yellows, depending on what part of the plant is used, St John’s Worth hues of yellow, green and maroon, while gorse, so visible on Baltinglass hill, gives bright sunny shades of yellow and deep green.
William Hanbidge in Memories of West Wicklow, 1813-1939 informs us that you could tell where a person was from by the colour of their clothes, as the dyes for home produced clothes came from local plants.
The Team are encouraging owners of premises to paint colours drawn from this pallet, creating their own interpretation, while paying attention to the overall look, in enhancing our pretty little town. They have secured funding for this……..
As ever, thanks to the increasing number of owners/businesses who have brightened up their premises for all to enjoy. And best wishes to Colm and those involved in Mary Rose, we look forward to its release at the end of 2027/early 2028.

28/08/2026

This might just give tourism j. Baltinglass a boost. Our town will represent 1950s Ireland .

Fifties drama Mary Rose, starring Zara Devlin, already attracting industry buzz

28/08/2026

Another exhibition from Baltinglass. The library is hosting this one.

28/08/2026

The Tourism and Economic development sub group of Baltinglass Town team wish to convey our sincere thanks to all who helped make our recent exhibition of old photos of Baltinglass an outstanding success.
Baltinglass Tidy Towns gave us immense support and practical help with this project … míle buíochas daoibh a chailíní 🙏.
Thanks to Tommy Doyle , Nicky Butler, Avril O Reilly and Mary Vernon for their invaluable help. Thanks to Teresa and Katri in the library who were ever so helpful and accommodating . We hope to run the exhibition again with a “ few extra” items of interest for Heritage week in 2027.
We wish to thank all who donated and shared photos with us ( a list of these people can be viewed on the wall of Hillfort Room in library ) .
Going forward we would love to be in a position to use some of these photos in a town heritage trail which we are working on at present .
Long term we envisage having the cells and Hillfort Room as the starting point for our heritage trail . Major funding and local support will be needed to get this next project “over the line “ . We need everyone’s support because “ Ní neart go cur le chéile“
Míle Buíochas

21/08/2026

Today, Friday, is your LAST CHANCE to see the new collection of old photographs of Baltinglass. And the CELLS in the Courthouse are open for viewing today. This is a rare chance to see the Courthouse which is located by the library.
Baltinglass Matters Wicklow County Council Wicklow County Arts Office

20/08/2026

FRIDAY is the last chance to see this exhibition, maybe YOU will bring an old photo next year.

20/08/2026

19/08/2026

In conjunction with Baltinglass Tidy Towns
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Tidy Towns and the Economic and Tourism Town Team are thrilled with the response to last night's Heritage Week event; the momentum it helped build towards developing a town heritage trail and reopening and utilizing the Courthouse, both important to the tourism infrastructure of Baltinglass. Thank you to all who made this happen.
In response to the public interest old photographs loaned for the temporary exhibition will continue to be on display in the Hillfort Room of our library and on FRIDAY from 10.30am to 1.00pm and again from 2.00pm to 5.00pm.
If you have photographs of the town which could be used for the heritage trail, please leave your details at the library reception or with one of the Town Team. We are particularly interested in photographs of businesses and premises in use capturing the service and trade tradition of the town.

18/08/2026

How good to see a new shop in Baltinglass.

Noel's antique shop now has its front completed and its name painted. People won't have any excuse now for mistaking the McAllister area of Main Street for Weavers Square. The shop is open on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. It's a great place to rummage. All sorts of interesting things.

06/08/2026

🌿 Funding Reminder: Applications Close This Friday (7th August)!

Community groups in Wicklow are encouraged to submit their applications for the Wicklow County Council Community Based Environmental Fund before the deadline this Friday 7th August.

The fund supports projects focused on climate action, biodiversity, sustainability, and environmental enhancement, with collaboration between community groups strongly encouraged.

Eligible applicants include Tidy Towns groups, residents' associations, and similar organisations registered with their local PPN.

Don't miss this opportunity to secure funding for projects that can make a lasting difference in local communities.

Get your application in before the deadline and best of luck.

Find out more & Apply: https://www.wicklow.ie/Living/News-Events/wicklow-county-council-now-accepting-applications-for-community-based-environmental-fund