Over €80,000 granted for conservation works in Tipperary towns

Over €30,000 has been secured in conservation funding for DW Parkes Chemist on Gladstone Street in Clonmel, while another €50,000 is to made available for a heritage-led regeneration plan for Tipperary Town. The news was announced on Friday morning, April 3, by the Heritage Council, and it is hoped that such plans will inform future applications for specific grant funding.

€32,176 has been granted towards the Clonmel project; back in 2024 the council were in talks to buy the building which dates from about 1840. Both awards are part of a €2 million pot announced for heritage-led regeneration projects throughout the country that will also support traditional building skills. 

Clonmel and Tipperary Town are two of 18 historic towns granted the funding under the Historic Towns Initiative (HTI), a scheme that encourages the specific re-use of historic buildings. 

These awards are intended to support residential and business re-use in towns across Ireland by keeping historic buildings in good conservation condition.

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Other specific projects were granted funding throughout the country, including €325,000 for the Old Soldier’s Home in Fermoy. The building has been vacant for almost a decade and is deteriorating due to water ingress. 

Another €350,000 was granted to The Convent of Mercy Churches in Kells, Co. Meath, €100,000 for conservation-led upgrading of buildings on Castle Street in Tralee, and €287,864 for works ot the heritage quarter of Enniscorthy town centre in Wexford including the castle, and the Enniscorthy Atheneum.