A €500,000 successful application under the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund for the Yeats Trail in Sligo.
County Sligo is the location for the ‘Yeats Trail’ project, a county-wide initiative linking and interpreting the most important sites in the County associated with the poet William Butler Yeats’ and his works. Long known as ‘Yeats’ Country’, Yeats himself referred to Sligo as the ‘Land of Hearts’ Desire’ and his love for the County is reflected in the many poems, songs, plays, and writings that mention Sligo.
Specifically, the project is a signposted ‘Yeats Trail’ touring route incorporating ten significant locations associated with the poet William Butler Yeats and his works. At each of these sites a unique artistic installation, a ‘Suite of Elements’, will be located, each informed by its site-specific natural environment and setting and Yeats association. Uniform directional signage will link the sites together as part of the ‘Yeats Trail’. A dedicated website and trail app/guide translated into three languages will complement the signposted project.
Project details
- Extensive consultation Sligo County Council, Coillte, The Yeats Society and other stakeholders
- Provision of proposal synopsis, including specific objectives, e.g. business investment, job creation, addressing social disadvantage, improved services infrastructure
- Designing and developing a detailed proposal, elaborating on the proposed project
- Preparation of funding applications, for submission to the Rural Regional Development Fund.
- Analysis of the governance, operational and strategic management processes required to develop, implement and manage the process
- Outlining key milestones envisaged in the delivery of the project
- Presentation of project rationale, including identifying existing assets, accessibility, environmental aspects, etc., as well as deficits and opportunities.
- Description of the innovation and additionality applied in the project, to stimulate rural regeneration
- Outlining the extent of stakeholder engagement
- Linking the project to the National Strategic Outcomes in the National Planning Framework, as well as other statutory plans
- Evaluation of economic an social impacts of the project upon the rural area
- Establishing economic and social indicators, targets and metrics against which progress will be monitored, evaluated and measured
- Sustainability of the project, and suitability for replication elsewhere
