Small village committee in Tipperary thinks big to enhance valuable community assets

The Marlfield Tidy Village Committee organised a party at St Patrick’s Chapel, Marlfield to celebrate its 40th anniversary.

The committee held its first meeting in Bernie Lennon's house on September 30 1985.

The Marlfield Tidy Village Committee has in its lifetime been the driving force behind some of the greater Clonmel area’s most popular and valuable community assets.

This small village committee thought big and very successfully and became the driver of caring for the environmental assets with which nature has endowed Marlfield.

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Marlfield Lake is the go-to place for people of all ages. Sandybanks and the magical forest walks at Glenbawn, also known as The Rock, are the products of the partnership between the Workman’s Boat Club and Marlfield Village. Its development was a labour of love with time, skills and perspiration given freely and in abundance for the common goal of the love of nature.

The lovely historical building that is St Patrick’s Chapel is another partnership, between the select vestry committee of St Mary’s Church of Ireland and Marlfield Village Committee, and the fruits of another labour of love are very evident.

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Marlfield Tidy Village Committee welcomes everyone to join them in caring for nature’s bounty, from St Patrick’s Well to Sandybanks and from St Patrick’s Church to The Rock, with which they are blessed, and it’s all for free.