Community to benefit from park improvement works

AN “UNDERUTILISED” local park will see enhancements take place early next year as it is included in South Dublin County Council’s schedule for improvement works for 2022.

Quarryvale Park in Clondalkin, located beside the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre, is set to receive the upgrade works after calls to include more basic amenities in the park such as public seating, public bins and play spaces.

Councillor for Palmerstown-Fonthill-North Clondalkin, Derren Ó Brádaigh, says that he welcomes the confirmation for the improvement works as the park has become “a field filled with litter, remains of fires and glass covered pathways”.

Cllr Ó Brádaigh said: “I am delighted that finally some work will be scheduled in the improvements works for 2022, that will help address the total absence of any basic amenities in Quarryvale Park.

“It has always struck me how this one park, above all others in the wider locality is totally void of basic amenities – by this I mean no public seating, shrubs and planting, trees, public bins, play spaces etc.”

A green space damaged by a large fire

Cllr Ó Brádaigh had a motion passed at an Area Committee meeting in May this year requesting that the park be included in the Parks and Open Strategy for consideration for improvement works, to bring the park in line with other nearby parks such as Collinstown in North Clondalkin and Willsbrook and Hermitage Parks in East Lucan.

He added that he hopes these works will benefit the community and hopefully encourage more people to visit the park: “Quarryvale Park is 6 hectares in size and as such is underutilised.

“I believe that with some thought and investment, the local community could greatly begin to benefit from a valuable open piece of parkland for everyone to own and enjoy.

“I now look forward to the improvement recommendations that will be forthcoming from the Public Realm operations and maintenance section in the Council.”