An information morning on the fantastic Renville Sports & Community Grounds development will take place for members of Oranmore Maree GAA One Club and the local community on Saturday, June 3 at 10am in the Galway Bay Golf Resort Club House.
The event will include an overview of plans for Renville Sports & Community Grounds as well as an unveiling of the planned timeline for the project.
All club and community members are invited to attend. Oranmore Maree GAA One Club will also welcome all volunteer support to help make project a reality with a Volunteer Sign Up Area present on the day.
An Bord Pleanála granted planning permission in March of this year for the much needed Renville Sports & Community Grounds, a Sports Centre of Excellence, in the area of Oranmore-Maree.
It will serve the sporting needs of the area with a number of all-weather and full size pitches, and other community facilities.
The vision for the development is to deliver in Renville leading sporting facilities which will benefit members of the Oranmore Maree GAA One Club (Oranmore Maree GAA Club, Oranmore Maree Camogie Club and Naomh Mhuire Ladies Football Club merged in 2019 into one integrated club ) and the wider community for generations to come.
It is planned that Renville Sports & Community Grounds will include one 4G full size pitch; two sand based grass full size pitches; one juvenile pitch; three training / warm up areas;club pavilion with multiple changing rooms; ball wall; a community facilities area; secure low level 2km lit community walking / running track; public children’s playground area; preservation of a ringfort as a local heritage and educational site and a community parking area with accessible public toilets and baby changing facilities which will help further service Renville Park and Graveyard.
These amenities are greatly needed in the Oranmore-Maree area where there has been a huge population growth in recent years within the area, with the population approaching 10,000.
This has led to the Oranmore-Maree GAA One Club operating at beyond maximum capacity with nearly 100 GAA teams at present using the local community sporting facilities.
With over 2,500 pupils attending schools in Oranmore and Maree every day and with a combined membership of nearly 1,700 people in the club (over 1,000 boys and girls ), the vision for Renville arose out of an urgent need to develop new sporting facilities to cater for the rapidly expanding playing numbers from juvenile to adult level.
The club membership has grown by 60% in the last five years and is expected to continue to grow strongly with the ongoing and future development of many new housing developments in the area.
