The dlr Community Grants Scheme is designed to support local initiatives which promote growth and development in the areas of community development, events, heritage, environment, arts and business area promotion in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area.
This scheme is now closed and will open again in Sept 2026.
2025 dlr Heritage Grants Awarded
Round 1:
Sandyford Downs Residents Association and Community Garden: Biodiversity projects, €566
Killiney Historical Society: Historic map scanning, €560
Wordwell Books | Eastwood Books: "Dalkey: An Illustrated History", €1,000
Killiney Historical Society: Interpretive display panel, €2,000
Killiney Historical Society: Journal 2025 and calendar, €1,328
Shankill Tidy Towns: Old Woods Trail / Slí na Sean-Choille, €2,500
Shankill Tidy Towns: Shankill community walks, €630
Shankill Tidy Towns: Orientation signs, €1,050
Joanna Marsden: Research, interviews; talk/article; 'Always Arriving': Dún Laoghaire as a place of arrival, €3,000
Moontour: Historical tours of the harbour by kayak - "Harbour Heritage at Sea", €3,906
Cabinteely Tidy Towns: Update of interpretation board and reprinting of map guides, €2,377
Kill Avenue / Deansgrange Tidy Towns: Heritage Trail, €2,000
Foxrock Area Community and Enterprise (FACE): Performance of "All that Fall" by Samuel Beckett, €3,500
Monkstown Village Tidy District: Enhancing Biodiversity and Community Awareness 2025, €1,624
Monkstown Village Tidy District: Five built heritage talks/walks, €700
Roger Casement Summer School: 2025 Roger Casement Summer School, €2,300
Irish Federation of University Women:"100 Years of Empowering Women: Celebrating the Centenary of the Irish Federation of University Women", €2,000
Dalkey Irish Heritage Town Co: Updating eight video animations, €1,500
Round 2:
Killiney Historical Society: Interpretation signs, €2,100
Joanna Marsden: Research, interviews; talk/article; 'Always Arriving': Dun Laoghaire as a place of arrival, €1,800
Mount Merrion Residents Association: Signage for Native Irish Apple Orchard, €1,368
Foxrock Area Community and Enterprise (FACE): Design for Foxrock area heritage walking map and guide, €1,827
Music in Monkstown: Monkstown Parish Church Organ Recitals, €1,650
Aisling Law: Feasibility Study for Imogen Stuart Workshop museum, €2,000
Balally Players Theatre Group: An exploration of the traumatic effect of the Harry Gleeson case on Sean McBride: Posthumous Pardon, €1,500
Monkstown Village Tidy District: Interactive virtual heritage tour, €2,100
Killiney Historical Society: Heritage map and document scanning, €1,627
Maritime Institute of Ireland/Foras Muiridhe na h-Éireann: Online Library Catalogue System installation, €1,913
2024 dlr Heritage Grants Awarded
Monkstown Village Tidy District: Biodiversity projects 2024, €1,940
Running Blind Dance: Performance Promenade, €500
Shankill Tidy Towns: Shankill Community Walks, €1,500
Glencullen Walking Tours: In time's eye - the four roads of Glencullen, €960
5K Histories: Shipwrecks video, €2,000
Sandyford Downs: Biodiversity projects, €865
Joyce Tower Museum: Conservation of Joyce Tower Paper Collection, €1,000
Balally Players: Juggernaut play performance, €990
Monkstown Village Tidy District: Monkstown's built heritage 2024, €840
DigitalDub.ie; Documentary Film, €2,000
Dunleary Lifeboat Project: Restoration project, €1,000
Roger Casement Summer School: 2024 Roger Casement Summer School, €3,000
Foxrock Area Community and Enterprise: Foxrock and the Harcourt Street Line outdoor exhibition, €1,000
Dalkey Tidy Towns: Heritage creative interpretation, €1,573
Killiney History Society: Historical map scanning, €1,240
Shankill Tidy Towns: Shankill as a Walking Venue, €900
William Byrne: Loughlinstown workhouse information Board, €1,450
Killiney Village Residents Association: History Festival, €1,600
The National Maritime Museum of Ireland: Exhibition enhancement, €1,000
Shabnam Vasisht: Digging up the Raj in the Attic, €1,000
Killiney Village Residents Association: Journal 2024, €1,000
Watson Killiney Residents Association: Biodiversity project, €500
Newpark Academy of Music: Melfield: from Opera to Rockera exhibition, €800
Ballinteer Senior Citizens Courtyard: Biodiversity project, €400
2023 dlr Heritage Grants Awarded
Foxrock Tidy Towns: Culture and heritage talks, €800
Shankill Tidy Towns: Developing Shankill as a walking venue, €700
Roger Casement Summer School: 2023 Summer School, €4,500
Killiney Village Residents Association: Village Design Statement Workshop, €3,000
Killiney Bay Community Council: Calendars, €600
National Maritime Museum: Rochdale/Prince of Wales Shipwrecks 1807 exhibition, €2,000
Shankill Tidy Towns: Shankill heritage signage, €560
Cabinteely Tidy Towns: Cabinteely heritage walk, €2,100
Killiney Village Residents Association: Biodiversity Workshops, €1,000
Morrigan Books: Heritage Publication 2023, €2,000
Dalkey Castle: Dalkey Heritage Town Map, €3,000
Foxrock Area Community and Enterprise: Phone box refurbishment, €595
Loughlinstown Community Rooms: Plant a tree, €475
Monkstown Village Tidy District: Heritage Walks, €700
Monkstown Village Tidy District: Biodiversity Planning, €2,500
Shankill Tidy Towns: Shankill community walks, €1,300
Sandyford Downs Residents Association: Biodiversity projects 2023, €770
2022 dlr Heritage Grants Awarded
Seed Scholars: Citizen Science with the River Slang videos, €3,000
Killiney Community Council: Heritage Trail Series 2, €700
Mushroom Stuff: Foraging events, €2,500
Foxrock Area Community and Enterprise: Heritage map for Foxrock, €2,500
O'Brien Press Ltd: "The Granite Coast", €1,500
Shankill Tidy Towns: Route signage, €800
Monkstown Village Tidy District: Biodiversity projects 2022, €1,900
Shankill Tidy Towns: Community Walks, €1,000
Friends of Joyce Tower Society: Tales from the Tower : A Personal History of the James Joyce Tower and Museum by its Curators, €2,500
Sandyford Downs Residents Association: Biodiversity for Keeps project, €500
Lakelands Residents Association: Journal, €1,000
Men's Mental Health Initiative/ Digital Dub: The Brack film, €2,000
Roger Casement Summer School: Summer School, €5,000
Barnacullia Woodside History Group: Publication, €500
An Taisce: Grey Poplar project and native tree replanting, €400
2021 dlr Heritage Grants Awarded
Round 1:
Dunleary Lifeboat Project: Promotion/ Improve Community Awareness, €2,000
Monkstown Village Tidy District: Growing Biodiversity - plan for Monkstown, €2,000
Richmond Park Tidy Districts Association: Biodiversity Plan for Richmond Park, €700
Roger Casement Summer School: Summer School, €4,900
Roger Casement Summer School: Summer School, €5,000
Friends of Joyce Tower Society: Framing original paintings of James Joyce's houses in Dublin and Dun Laoghaire, €1,250
Dún Laoghaire TidyTowns Group: Installation of wild flower meadow in central Dún Laoghaire, €800
Round 2:
The Irish Military Heritage Foundation: Martello Tower Trail, €1,000
Shankill Tidy Towns: Heritage walks, €868
Ballinclea Heights: Biodiversity project, €1,000
Killiney Bay Community Council: Heritage map, €700
Dalkey Irish Heritage Town Company: Things To Do Brochure, €1,000
Sandyford Downs Resident's Association: Insect Hotels, €820
Monkstown Village Tidy District: Biodiversity Events, €955
Glencullen History Project: "The Story of a Village, It’s People and Heritage", €900
5k histories: Real Irish Pirates Video, €1,000