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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

MOTION NO. 17

MOTION: Councillor B. Bonner

"This committee supports the establishment of a heritage project to explore St Cuthbert's Church in Kilmahuddrick and calls on the Chief Executive to put interdepartmental supports in place to enable this project to begin to stabilise and protect his important heritage site."

REPORT:

The Council’s Heritage Officer has met with Councillors to discuss potential heritage projects at St. Cuthbert’s. This developed into another meeting recently on site with Cllr. Bonner and some representatives from local community and heritage groups and one of the local school principals.

The primary objective of the process is to encourage a more positive use of the church and graveyard site by the communities surrounding the park. It is hoped that a heritage project in the church site would assist with the overall anti-social behaviour issues in the park. It is hoped that increasing passive surveillance through the church site after it is cleaned up and made less threatening for the normal park user will help to reduce the use of the site for more anti-social purposes.

Council’s Heritage Officer also plans to engage an archaeologist to assist with this process by putting a plan in place of the activities the group could engage in, with the agreement and support of the Council’s Public Realm section. Bearing in mind the Protected Status of the site, any issues of maintenance to the structure itself will also require the involvement of the Council’s Architectural Conservation Officer.