South Dublin County Heritage Trail App Launched

20/02/2020

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The South Dublin County Heritage Trail App was launched by the Mayor of South Dublin County Council, Cllr Vicki Casserly at an event in the Round Tower Visitor Centre – Brú Chrónáin, Clondalkin on Tuesday 18 February.

The app is fully interactive, user-friendly and highlights the history and heritage of Clondalkin village whilst drawing attention to the Round Tower Visitor Centre as a focal point of the trail.

The mobile tourism app can greatly expand on the capabilities of a phone, using GPS to guide the user and camera and audio features to make the experience much more immersive, engaging and real through bringing historical sites to life.

The idea for the heritage app came out of the €300k Have Your Say Participatory Budgeting consultative process for the Clondalkin Electoral Area, where members of the public were asked to suggest funding ideas for their area and then voted on a shortlist of agreed projects.

Mayor Vicki Casserly said “The result of a number of months of work, this innovative heritage app is the first of its kind in the local authority sector in Ireland. It has multilingual capabilities, is available on different mobile app platforms and uses maps to direct users to nearby places of interest.”

The app includes 16 individual heritage points of interest in and around Clondalkin village using images, text and audio for each point and is available in Irish, English, French and German. It is wi-fi activated and uses Android or Apple maps to direct users to nearby places of interest. Each site will have its own uniquely identifiable sign that will display a QR code to allow anyone download the app.

The app is free to download to mobile phones and tablets from now by searching South Dublin Co Heritage or Clondalkin Heritage Trail.

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For more information, contact South Dublin County Council Communications Unit at communications@sdublincoco.ie

IMAGE 1 Mayor of South Dublin County Council, Cllr. Vicki Casserly with Frank Nevin, Director of Services, Economic, Enterprise and Tourism Development, South Dublin County Council (L) and Daniel McLoughlin, Chief Executive, South Dublin County Council.

IMAGE 2 Mayor of South Dublin County Council, Cllr. Vicki Casserly at the launch of the South Dublin County Heritage Trail app with (L-R) Cllr Paul Gogarty, Cllr Francis Timmons, Frank Nevin, Director of Services, SDCC, Cllr, Ed O’Brien, Cllr Eoin Ó Broin, Cllr Peter Kavanagh, Cllr Joanna Tuffy.

IMAGE 3: Mayor of South Dublin County Council, Cllr. Vicki Casserly at the launch of the South Dublin County Heritage Trail app with (L-R) Frank Nevin, Director of Services, Economic, Enterprise and Tourism Development, South Dublin County Council, Anthony Curran, Catherine Breen and Ralph McGarry from the Council’s County Promotion Unit who oversaw the app’s development.

FOR THE EDITOR

About the €300k Have Your Say Participatory Budgeting initiative

Operated by South Dublin County Council since 2017 the €300k Have Your Say Participatory Budgeting initiative allows residents to develop project proposals for their local area and then vote on shortlisted proposals in order to select winning projects to be implemented by the Council.

The initiative allows local people to have a direct say in the running of their local communities, putting them at the heart of how decisions are made. This initiative is about enabling people to have a greater voice on local priorities. It gives local people the opportunity to vote on investment in their area, to shape the services they use and address the issues that are important to them in their community.

Some key figures for the process here in the Clondalkin Electoral Area:

230 ideas were submitted during the consultation phase,
Over 120 participants took part in the community workshops,
Have Your Say adverts online were viewed over 650,000 times
24 projects went towards the final ballot
Over 1,500 ballots were cast
and 15 projects were selected by public vote for funding.

These projects were then taken on by various departments within the Council to be completed.

For more information see https://haveyoursay.southdublin.ie/

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About South Dublin County Council

South Dublin County Council is one of four local authority areas in the Dublin region.

The Council provides and funds a broad range of services including housing, roads, walking and cycling routes, parks and playgrounds, libraries, sports facilities, litter control, arts centres, enterprise units, fire services, community infrastructure and financial support. It also serves as a platform for local democracy with 40 councillors spread across seven electoral areas.

Bounded by the River Liffey to the North and the Dublin Mountains to the South, the County lies 16 kilometres south-west of Dublin city centre and has an administrative footprint of 223sq. kilometres.

The County has nine main villages Clondalkin, Lucan, Palmerstown, Rathfarnham, Tallaght, Templeogue, Saggart, Rathcoole and Newcastle and is bounded by adjoining counties of Wicklow, Kildare, Dublin City, Fingal and Dún Laoghaire.

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