Action plan: 2020
Wis action plan lists the work we’ll do under the 8 themes identified in 2012 as most important to our community.
See what we’re doing where you live:
1. Culture and heritage
- Erect a fence and access stile at Corbally famine graveyard
- Remove trees at Inishkenny graveyard
- Prepare a maintenance plan for Inishkenny and Corbally graveyards
- Place vintage agricultural machinery in areas other than Ballinora and Waterfall
- Seek funding to place sculptures and art pieces in Ballinora and Waterfall
- Research the impact of West Cork Railway on life in Ballinora
- Prepare a management plan for Waterfall bridge
- Research archaeological sites in Ballinora and Waterfall
- Research local activity in Ballinora and Waterfall during the 1921 War of Independence
- Research the building of the viaduct and railway line passing through Waterfall
- Paint mural of Waterfall railway station somewhere in Waterfall
- Repair or restore the old church in Inishkenny graveyard
- Install old style replica phone box
2. Social Inclusion
- Investigate rural bus service for Ballinora and Waterfall
- Promote social opportunities for older people, particularly during the day – a drama group, book club, scrabble club, historical society, house visitations
3. Environment
- Using the ‘Better Energy Communities Programme 2020’, organise community-wide energy improvements to buildings
- Promote reduction in plastic use
- Take steps to reduce the use of pesticides and herbicides
- Prepare a water conservation and food waste reduction plan
- Plant native shrubs and flowers appropriate for pollinator-friendly and companion planting
- Investigate setting up a community composting facility
- Put in place a plan to eradicate invasive plant species
- Identify areas suitable for returning to nature (wilding)
- Repair gaps in hedgerows
- Identify areas suitable for biodiversity planting
- Participate in BirdWatch Ireland’s Garden Bird Survey in December, January and February
Waterfall
- Improve the visual impact of the entrance to Waterfall from the west
- Add extra Waterfall finger post signs
- Plant Ballinora Pippin apple trees
- Fit solar lighting to Waterfall railway bridge and plant all 4 sides
- Plant native and pollinator-friendly shrubs in Waterfall
- Erect a stone wall between Waterfall railway bridge and Kent’s entrance
- Conduct biodiversity, flora and fauna and pollination baseline study
- Paint field gates around Waterfall
- Replace Waterfall post box
Ballinora
- Paint perimeter church and school walls
- Prepare biodiversity, flora and fauna, and pollination baseline study
- Erect a biodiversity information board at Goblin Corner
- Install a footpath from the bridge to the school
- Plant Ballinora Pippin apple trees
- Place 2 more flower boxes on the bridge at bottom of Hall Hill
- Set up a working group to maintain the village on a weekly basis
- Repair the bridge stonework at the entrance to the village from Ballinora Cross
Jimmy’s Cross
- Install public lighting
- Strim grass on road verges, ditches and ditch walls regularly
Ballinora Cross
- Install public lighting
- Strim grass on road verges, ditches and ditch walls regularly
Maglin Bridge
- Install public lighting
- Strim grass on road verges, ditches and ditch walls regularly
Corbally Cross
- Clean area across from Corbally famine graveyard
- Install public lighting
- Strim grass on road verges, ditches and ditch walls regularly
Top of the World
- Erect 360° degree panorama photo of the surrounding countryside
4. Safety and security
- Offer property log-books to residents
- Install public lighting
5. Roads and road safety
- Resolve repeat road flooding black spots around Ballinora and Waterfall
- Remove 2 trees on the west side of Old Abbey railway bridge
- Build a pathway from Ballinora – Waterfall – Ballymah GAA pitch – Marymount bus stop through a rural regeneration programme
- Put traffic management plan in place for the roads from Maglin to Jimmy’s Cross, Curraheen to Ballinora Cross and Ballymah to Waterfall
- Give input to the rural road speed limits review by Cork County Council
- Place convex mirrors at dangerous bends
- Erect kerbs near the wall at Inniskenny graveyard and tarmac into the new kerbs
6. Communications
- Appoint an administrator for the community website, Twitter and Facebook accounts
- Publish a monthly blog post or information leaflet about events taking place in Ballinora and Waterfall
- Conduct a parish-wide survey with help from SECAD
- Erect a ‘billboard’ in Ballinora and Waterfall for use by organisations promoting events
7. Recreation
- Position seats at various locations along the heritage trail
- Develop Sli na Slainte walk in the parish – with distance marking (km), steps taken, calories burned (Kcal)
8. Infrastructure
- Investigate the location and costs of a meeting room that can hold more than 40 people with kitchen, toilets and other utilities