Wexford Community Allotment Scheme

wexford community allotments will soon be moving to a new home watch this space

We have not updated our blog in quite a while because we have been so busy with our allotment getting it ready for opening in early 2010. At present we have cleared all vegetation getting ready for ploughing and sowing of organic based clover to grow over winter. In addition we started work on our [...]

Contact details for info on allotments tom harpur 0872294095

group meeting at our new allotment site tomorrow at 2pm time for wellies and old clothes cant wait

wow great news we the wcas group have just returned from meeting a land owner in wexford and we have agreed a lease for 2ac plus 6ac for the cost of €1 thats right €1 wow

Meeting tomorrow at 11am regarding the establishment of wcas hopefully present Tom Harpur Jane Cloney Eamon Doyle Cllr joe Ryan Cllr Danny Forde Caroline Godkin amongst others. Next stage get a commitee together and get moving on work

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Plans for Community Allotment scheme for Clonard residents

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Wednesday May 20 2009

PLANS ARE afoot to establish a Community Allotment Scheme for the Clonard/Coolcotts area and to this end Tom Harpur, originally from Belvedere Grove, is seeking the public’s [...]

A brief history of allotments
The origins of allotments go back over 200 hundred years – they derive from the enclosure legislation of the 18th and 19th centuries in England.
 

The word ‘allotment’ originates from land being allotted to an individual under an enclosure award (Enclosures were used by richer land-owners to stop the poor grazing their [...]