Clarecastle Tidy  Towns have retained their gold medal at the TidyTowns Ireland annual competition award ceremony in Croke on Friday 23rd October. We were awarded 404/600 marks, up 14 points on 2025 . That score brings Clarecastle  a Gold medal and  top of our Category (C) In the County and just 9 points behind Ballinahown, CO. Westmeath our Congratulations to our Neighbours Quin Village who won a gold medal and County first prize.

The TidyTowns Ireland competition is all about whole of community and the spread of marks across all  eight  categories shows the excellent cooperation we have within groups in Clarecastle  and this is reflected in the adjudicators Concluding Remarks: “The committee, volunteers and all the residents of Clarecastle are doing some great work in areas of preserving local heritage, sustainability , supporting nature and biodiversity and making your community a better place to live. Keep up the good work and best wishes for the future.”

On behalf of the Tidy Towns team , Mile Buiochas to each and every person that has brought our Village  to Gold medal status in a national competition  that adjudicated on 936  entries across the length and breadth of the country.

This national  award is testimony to the excellent work that is going on  by our groups and organisations, School and businesses across the entire community as well as our small  Clarecastle Tidy Towns  team.

Our thanks to the various departments in Clare Co Council, with a special mention for the roads team , our Local and Public representatives, Clare Local Development Company  ,our brilliant  TUS ( Brian)  and Community employment employee (Eric) . and their supervisors, our sponsors and contributors to Clarecastle community lotto and many others

Please review the Adjudicators comprehensive report based on the unannounced visit to our village on the 8th Of June and for the first Time a second visit on the 26th of July

https://tidytowns.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/u_reports/2026/clare/2026-Clare-Clarecastle-1082.pdf