Julianstown

Julianstown Shines in Pride of Place

All credit to Julianstown Residents Association. Last Thursday two judges came from the all-Ireland Pride of Place organisation to spend 3 hours in the area judging the village. Julianstown was one of only four entries especially selected by Meath County Council to participate.

More than 50 people turned out on a Sunny morning and were joined by local councilors and representatives from local and voluntary groups. The judges were treated to a presentation on the history and outlook for Julianstown.

Many locals made contributions from the floor, highlighting community projects and pointing out some of their concerns. It was ironic that in researching the history of the residents association which started in 1974 that one of the first items on the agenda was traffic and speeding in the village. Plus ca change as they say in France.

posted by FPL @ 8:32 PM 0 comments

1300 more homes in Laytown = 2000 more cars in Julianstown

Plans were submitted this week to develop an "eco-residential village" near Laytown railway station. I'm darned if I know what that is or if an eco non-residential village would be better. Anyway that's a shed load of houses and the development is sure to rival Grangerath for size.

While the development is bound to be the shining light in eco-friendliness making us feel all warm and fuzzy inside, adding an extra 2000 vehicles to Julianstown chronic traffic is as far from eco as you can get. As we have tirelessly pointed out Julianstown now caters for 22,000 vehicles per day on weekdays and not much less than that on the weekend. The growth rate sits around 5%/year.

Dominic Hannigan has something to say here

Anyway for what it's worth you can view the plan in Duleek and make submissions before September

posted by FPL @ 8:24 PM 0 comments

Nice Comments

Via Email....

Dear Julianstown residents,
Thank you for your website there should be more of it.
As an Australian lover of everything Irish I look at your website and wish I was back in your wonderful land. I must have travelled past your village a number of times but I have never visited. I have been to Drogheda, Slane ,Newgrange and up and down the Boyne. Next time it's Julianstown. I was initially attracted to your village because I have a son called Julian. The last time I spent any length of time in Ireland I picked a place at random on the map and went there to have a good look. On that occasion the village was Rathangan near Kildare, before that it was Doolin on the west coast and the first place was Crookhaven down in the far south west. Had a great time at all these locations.

I live in Box Hill, a suburb of Melbourne. If anybody is interested at looking at places on Google Earth then you can see my house at 37deg 48min 55.17sec South and 145deg 08min 17.19 sec East.

Hear is the website of our local municipality. www.whitehorse.vic.gov.au/

Until my next visit.
Cheers

David Castles

posted by FPL @ 6:24 PM 0 comments