Kilteevan Tidy Towns AGM was held in the Community Centre on November 22^nd 2018

Brief Report

The decision to enter Kilteevan in the Tidy Towns competition for 2019 was unanimous.

The 2018 committee agreed to remain in position for another year and are being joined by a number of very welcome young volunteers.

Tidy Towns Committee 2019

Eileen Fahey - Chairperson

Marguerite Croghan - Secretary

Hugh Brennan-Treasurer

Lena Coyle- Head of Gardening

Trish Fox- Youth Liaison

Fiona Kilmartin, David Gibbons, Joe Fox, Barney Donlon,

 Mattie Murphy, Gertie Murphy, Caitriona Dolan, Ned Gilligan, Fiona Coen , 

Ray Clabby ,Sean Mooney, Kevin Fannon, James Mooney,  Liam Egan, Éabha Dolan, Sophie Coen, Kieran Coyle, Adam Lalwani .

 An important fundraising coffee morning on Sunday December 9^th.at 10.45 a.m.

The coffee morning will also celebrate the award winning Cloonlarge Loop.

The Kilteevan community would like to express our sincere thanks to Laura Dempsey for carrying out a refresher course in the use of our Defibrillator. Our First Responders are representatives from all groups and clubs in Kilteevan. It is vitally important that this refresher training takes place every six months. Our thanks also to Brian Mc Neela for ensuring this potentially lifesaving training takes place in our community

Heritage Council Grant 2017

Kilteevan Graveyard Committee applied in March this year under the Community Heritage Grant Scheme 2017 for funding for emergency conservation works to Kilteevan medieval parish church and adjoining burial vault. Subject to their terms and conditions the Heritage Council has offered the sum of €5,000 towards this project. Roscommon County Council is also supporting the conservation works.

The Heritage Council received 429 applications this year and awarded funding to 196 heritage projects. Kilteevan was one of six successful projects in the county.

Permission to carry out the works has been obtained from the National Monuments Service. Once a stonemason has been approved by Blackwood Associates, Conservation Architects for the project, permission will then be requested from Roscommon County Council. This year the works will concentrate on the conservation of the north wall of the church ruin which is the most vulnerable and in imminent danger of collapse.