by Carol Tallon | Oct 4, 2026 | 26-County, 26-Week Placemaking Tour, Placemaking
🇪🇺 Week 14 of 26: Placemaking in the Garden County – Place Engage comes home to County Wicklow County Wicklow – my birth county – the second-most expensive county in the State, and the week I have been most curious about and most wary...
by Carol Tallon | Sep 26, 2026 | 26-County, 26-Week Placemaking Tour
🇪🇺 Week 13 of 26: Placemaking in County Waterford Growth Without Building “Faigheann cos ar siúl rud nach bhfaigheann cos ina cónaí” — a walking foot finds something the resting foot never would. 🇪🇺 Week 13 of 26: Place...
by Carol Tallon | Sep 20, 2026 | 26-County, 26-Week Placemaking Tour
🇪🇺 Week 12 of 26: Placemaking in County Offaly Offaly – The Faithful County, With Property Values Catching up Fast 🇪🇺 Week 12 of 26: Placemaking in County Offaly – Place Engage arrives in County Offaly just in time for the Ploughing,...
by Carol Tallon | Sep 13, 2026 | 26-County, 26-Week Placemaking Tour
The Buyers Are There, The Homes Are Not: County Kerry 🇪🇺 Week 11 of 26: Place Engage arrives in County Kerry — the fifth-largest county on the map, the lowest-density county in this series so far, and the first where the placemaking problem is not a...
by Katie Tallon | Sep 5, 2026 | Placemaking
Ireland’s Most Rooted County: people rarely leave — and when they do, they return 🇪🇺 Week 10 of 26: Place Engage arrives in County Cork — the largest county in Ireland, the third most populous, and, officially, the most rooted place in the...
by Carol Tallon | Sep 5, 2026 | 26-County, 26-Week Placemaking Tour, Placemaking
Community Voices: Carol Tallon in conversation with Frank O’Connor of #DerelictIreland One of the richest, most wide-ranging, placemaking conversations of this 26-county, 26-week non-political placemaking tour so far. A conversation on Pope’s Quay with the co-founder...
by Katie Tallon | Aug 29, 2026 | 26-County, 26-Week Placemaking Tour, Placemaking
🇪🇺 Week 9 of 26: Placemaking in County Westmeath Who Can Afford to Move? “Faigheann cos ar siúl rud nach bhfaigheann cos ina cónaí” – a walking foot finds something the resting foot never would. 🇪🇺 Week 9 of 26: Place Engage...
by Carol Tallon | Aug 23, 2026 | 26-County, 26-Week Placemaking Tour
🇪🇺 Week 8 of 26: Placemaking in County Meath Week 8 of 26: Place Engage arrives in County Meath — where only 32% of residents were born in the county, and that turns out to be the most hopeful figure in the file rather than the most worrying...
by Carol Tallon | Aug 22, 2026 | 26-County, 26-Week Placemaking Tour, Placemaking
Ireland’s ‘Planted’ Gaeltacht: why we are not ready to tell this story yet Ireland’s smallest Gaeltacht sits in the middle of County Meath, and it exists only because the State moved – or “planted” – people there. Before I moved to the Gaeltacht in...
by Carol Tallon | Aug 16, 2026 | 26-County, 26-Week Placemaking Tour, Placemaking
🇪🇺 Week 7 of 26: Place Engage arrives in County Carlow — the second-smallest county in Ireland, and one of the fastest-changing “Faigheann cos ar siúl rud nach bhfaigheann cos ina cónaí” — a walking foot finds something the resting foot...
