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Kilfenora

The Home of Traditional Ceili Music and The Gateway to the Burren

The Home of Traditional Céilí Music and The Gateway to the Burren

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    • The Burren
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    • Father Ted
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    • Kilfenora Traditional Music Festival 2025
    • Festival concert – Máirtín O’Connor Band
    • “The Sounds of Kilfenora” project launch
    • Riches of Clare concert, Kilfenora Cathedral
    • Architectural Heritage of Kilfenora Cathedral – 25 June lecture
    • Kilfenora Traditional Music Festival 2024
    • Main concert – Kilfenora Trad Fest 27.4.24
    • Céilís and Riches of Clare @ Kilfenora Trad Fest
    • Celebration of Irish Dance in Kilfenora
    • CD launches at Kilfenora Trad Fest 2024
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      • Kilfenora Trad Festival 2023
      • Heritage events in Kilfenora in August
      • Kilfenora Trad Festival 2022
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Road safety in Kilfenora and North Clare – your views requested

Together with other communities in North Clare, Kilfenora residents are being consulted on road safety. A short questionnaire prepared by Kilfenora Development Community Group can be accessed and downloaded here. The reason for this consultation is simple.

• Problems with traffic speeds and volume, including inappropriate use of small roads because of GPS/Google, are now widely observed in and around Kilfenora, as elsewhere in the Burren area.

• Kilfenora Development Community Group asked Clare CoCo in 2020/1 to make improvements in and round Kilfenora – eg to slow down traffic entering the village – and to create safer spaces on the village outskirts by moving the speed limit signs. A replacement for the Failte Kilfenora sign destroyed by speeding joy riders was also requested. No positive response was received. Other villages have experienced similar difficulties in getting safety concerns addressed.

• The tragic death of Jerry O’Connor in Ballyvaughan has resulted in public meetings – reported on nationally – that have expressed extreme frustration at the lack of action on safety concerns that have been voiced over the last 15 years, and which have become more pressing as a result of increased tourism volumes associated with the Cliffs of Moher.

Helga Himmelsbach leads the march for Jerry O’Connor
Helga addresses the march for Jerry on 27.8.23

Public representatives at these meetings – TDs, Senators, Councillors – are now promising that real change must happen. As it happens there is a requirement for a 5 yearly road safety review to be conducted in Clare; also a County Climate Action Plan being developed now needs to respond to a Government/EU demand for lowered emissions and a 20% reduction in traffic volumes by 2030.

Tom Barrett, Chair of the North Clare Communities Group – the new collective organisation for community groups – has already written formally to Clare County Council to initiate discussion on an action plan to meet local concerns.

The North Clare Communities Group has formed a Transport and Road Safety Working Group that will meet for the first time on 5 September to generate a list of agreed priority actions. Kilfenora will be represented in that working group.

It will be helpful to have clear expressions of views from local communities – hence the use of the questionnaire. It can be returned with answers to [email protected], or hand your form in at O’Gormans shop – replies are requested by 5 September (5pm). Some responses will be collected directly in the street. All responses will be treated as anonymous.

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