Group plans to commission a unique sculpture to be placed on the traffic roundabouts at Southgate
Representatives of community groups, businesses, and individuals in the East Meath area of Drogheda have joined forces with Drogheda Tidy Towns and have come up with some great ideas to enhance the area and promote its significance as an access point to Drogheda and The Boyne Valley.
The Boyne Gateway Project, as they are calling it, is an exciting new initiative which centres around commissioning a unique sculpture piece to be placed on the traffic roundabouts at the Southgate Shopping Centre.
This sculpture will capture the essence of Southgate as the gateway to the beautiful and mythical Boyne Valley and the historic walled and gated town of Drogheda. The work will also include a biodiversity planting scheme for the junction.
This project has evolved from some of the work and connections created in 2022 with the Louth Meath Drogheda Spring clean initiative led by then Cathaoirleach of Laytown and Bettystown Municipal District, Cllr Elaine McGinty.
This project builds on that work and involves important coordination of Meath and Louth local authorities and related community groups.
The group driving this work includes Drogheda Tidy Towns, Local Resident Representatives, The Director of Droichead Arts Centre and Cllr McGinty.
Much progress has been made in recent months with key stakeholders including Meath County Council and The Meath Leader Partnership to develop an agreed approach.
Some initial sponsors including ‘AWS InCommunities’ have come on board to support this work and discussions are ongoing with others.
A commission brief has been developed and will be shortly issued seeking expressions of interest from artists.
The group are very excited about this project and look forward to it being a notable and pleasing enhancement to the local area as well as the wider region.
For more information on the Boyne Gateway Project please contact tidytownsdrogheda@gmail.com
Members of the Boyne Gateway Project team (from left): Gerry Leydon, Councillor Elaine McGinty, Collette Farrell, and Eamonn Clinton – missing from the picture are Jacqui Cusack, Fiona Gilligan, Aaron O’Neill, and Ciaran Leddy.
