1,500 trees to be planted in Kildare to honour St Brigid's anniversary

A new tree planting initiative on January 26 will see the planting of 1,500 native Irish saplings at the Barretstown Centre in Ballymore Eustace.

The number 1,500 has been chosen to represent the 1,500 year anniversary of Kildare Saint Bridget.

Over the last three years artist Steven Doody and Easytreesie.com have facilitated and enabled communities in south Kildare and west Wicklow to undertake reforestation projects in their area, The Idea of “Hiding a forest in plain sight” Communities

planting in the community for the community.

They bring together of people in a common project.

Easytrees.ie is also the official planting partner with the GAA and facilitated the planting of 40,000 saplings with clubs in 2022.

Planting projects over the last planting seasons have included communities in Kill, Celbridge, Kilcullen, Kilmeade, Grangecon,

Dunlavin, Castledermot and Kildare.

The project, a year of work involving groups like Barretstown, Easytreesie.com, Kildare Chamber Of Commerce, Steven Doody artist,

Global action plan, Intel, Irish Tree Council, Shamrock Spring, will contribute to the thousands of trees which have been planted in the West Wicklow, South Kildare areas.