"Carney Village" (with an active Tidy Towns Committee)
Two Projects were completed in May of this year (2002) in the Drumcliff / Carney region, by Sligo Institute of Technology, Diploma in Environmental Protection, Science students. These were supervised by Dr. Bill Crowe and comprised of studies on:
1. Water quality and faunal analysis of the Drumcliff River and Estuary at the river / sea interface (near Davis's Pub and restaurant), to assess potential winter / spring stocks of freshwater or marine invertebrates to feed sea trout populations which frequent this region; Submitted by Corina O'Dowd.
2. Water quality and faunal analysis of the Carney river at Carney Village, with development of a nature trail for the village and surrounding regions to enhance Carney's prospects in the National Tidy Towns Competition 2002; Submitted by Karen O'Mahony.Carney Village Nature Trail, at Riverside Park. Another Nature Trail has been produced for the nearby natural environment at Lissadell, in the vacinity of Carney Village.
The latter student produced a documented Nature Trail (with brochure) along the river; primarily for the local national school, at Ballinfull, but it possibly could be used later by tourists and the local population.
This Brochure is here presented as a web-page which could be down-loaded and printed prior to visiting the site of the Nature Trail.
The Sligo Natural Heritage group are considering ways of disseminating information to the general public.
One way of imparting information would be by a series of Nature Trails. Many now exist in the County. However, a problem exists that numerous leaflets distributed at the sites do not last long; people often take more than one.
More often than not there are no brochures (leaflets) left when a person interested in nature arrives at the site. In Hazelwood, for example there is a well marked out nature trail, there is a box for storing the leaflets to be dispensed, but there is rarely any leaflets left in the box. Instead there is usually rubbish.
Sligo County Council are operating a policy here of telling people to "take their rubbish away with them". When rubbish bins are left in a region with a car park it has been found that drivers take the opportunity to clean out the rubbish from their cars; food, nappies, paper e.t.c. and some people use the bin site as a dump.
Even if the bins are used legitimately they have to be emptied frequently, or the rubbish builds up and it is worse than having no bins. It is expensive emptying all the bins daily, or every two days, which is the rate that probably would be needed in a busy, frequently used area. The rubbish found in the leaflet box is probably the result of a frustrated member of the public looking for somewhere to dump their rubbish
If detailed maps showing labelled stops, information, diagrams, and photographs about a particular nature walk can be placed in a professionally produced brochure, these could be scanned into a web-site. This information could be accessed and printed prior to visiting the location. This would be very usefull for teachers planning to take school children / students to the locality, or for families, with home computers, planning to visit the region.
Karen O'Mahony's brochure, which is not very detailed, was photographed and assembled under time constraints for submission with a diploma examination thesis, but is here reproduced as an example of how this technique could be used.
Official Yeats United Football Club Facebook Site:
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soccer for everyone!
Other Soccer links: The renouned North Sligo Athletics Club also operate out of here.
Link to New Official Site www.northsligoac.com
Official North Sligo AC Facebook site:
www.facebook.com/pages/North-Sligo-Athletic-Club/104088472984492
Talented Young Sports enthusiests may consider extending and developing their sporting careeres at the institute of Technology, Sligo (approximately 10 miles away)
Sports Facilities at the Institute of Technology, Sligo Sports Scollarships at the Institute of Technology, Sligo
In September 2000 first year Environmental Science and Technology degree students and Diploma in Environmental Protection Students undertook a clean-up of Ballyconnel Beach under the supervision of Dr. Don Cotton, Dr. Bill Crowe and Ms. Frances Lucey. The Students also analysed the quantities and sources of the pollutin while on the beach and over a number of weeks in the laboritory.
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