The village of Emly in Co. Tipperary has won the title of Best Kept Village in the Best Kept Town Competition 2014. The announcement was made on the SS Nomadic in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter today.
The Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the Northern Ireland Amenity Council initiated Ireland’s best-kept towns competition 1995. its purpose is to raise the profile of both the Tidy Towns and Northern Ireland’s Best Kept competitions, and so help to improve the standard of towns and villages across the island of Ireland.
All entrants were marked against strick adjudication criteria that included cleanliness, the outward appearance of buildings, the presentation of roads and public facilities and the natural environment.
Joining Emly to secure accolades, was Enniskillen in Co. Fermanagh which took the overall award of Ireland’s Best Kept Town.
Hillsborough in Co Down won the Best Kept Small Town category, Maynooth in Co. Kildare secured Best Kept Large Town
