Fast-growing and innovative business invests in Mayo village

COMMUNITY NOTES: BALLYHAUNIS - WESTERN PEOPLE (APRIL 21 EDITION)

A fast-growing and innovative agri-fertiliser business is investing in Brickens.

Evergreenfields, which produces organic-based fertilisers, is seeking planning permission for the roofing of a silage slab as a storage area on land it purchased in the Ballybaun townland of Brickens.

The Dunmore-based company, which counts Uisce Éireann and Dawn Meats among its clients, distributes its organic fertiliser products to farmers nationwide, which are a more affordable alternative to conventional chemical-based fertilisers at a time when bag manure prices are soaring due to conflict in the Middle East.

The farm in Ballybaun was previously owned by the Concannon family, who ran a successful supermarket business in New York before retiring to their homeplace. The passing last year of Tom Concannon, who ran Morley’s supermarkets in Yonkers, was reported on this notes page.