Blackrock has been pipped by just one point by Hillsborough, Co. Down for the award for Ireland's Best Kept Small Town 2014. The awards were presented aboard the S.S. Nomadic in the Titanic Centre in Belfast recently. Blackrock received 215 points out of 250, while Hillsborough got 216. Former national Tidy Towns winner Aughrim, Co. Wicklow got 203 points.
This is an amazing achievement for Blackrock and it's a tremendous tribute to the whole community to have brought the village up to these standards.
The competition was judged during May, when the village was visited twice by the judges. Adjudication covered seven different categories, with Blackrock beating Hillsborough by one point in one category and equaling them in five others. However under the "Presentation of Residential Areas and Private Frontages" category Hillsborough beat Blackrock by two points giving them the award.
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