Work in Iveragh
Community, Connectivity & Culture
Find a Job: Employment Opportunities in Iveragh
SKDP Weekly Jobs Sheet:
Information is updated weekly with regard to employment vacancies here in South Kerry on the weekly online jobs bulletin provided by South Kerry Development Partnership.
Údarás na Gaeltachta vacancies available at:
https://www.udaras.ie/en/training-employment/jobs/
Please follow the Tascfhórsa on social media for up-to-date information on jobs advertised in Iveragh.
Grow Remote - Remote working opportunities are available from Grow Remote; a co-operative forum that shares information on undertaking remote working and the international opportunities that are currently available. You do not need to be based in any one country or in any particular region here in Ireland either to have a well-remunerated, high standard employment. Take a look at the current vacancies and choose Iveragh as your destination.
More information about these fantastic opportunities are available at:
https://growremote.ie/get-started/
Establish your own business in Iveragh: Support available to you
There are many organisations that can assist you whether you are looking for employment here in Iveragh or if you are looking for support to set up your own business. Details are provided below of the main enterprise and employment agencies available to you. You can make your dream business idea a reality. Seek out the support and start your new life today. Iveragh awaits!
Údarás na Gaeltachta provides a range of enterprise supports for both potential entrepreneurs and traders as well as established enterprises to start up, develop, expand or locate in a Gaeltacht region. Feasibility, research and development, training and capital grants are available.
Information and contact details in relation to start-up business supports available here: http://www.udaras.ie/en/business/start-ups/
Resources and support for developing your business are available here: http://www.udaras.ie/en/business/develop-your-business/
Digital Workspaces
gteic @Baile an Sceilg & gteic @An Dromaid
Údarás na Gaeltachta, in tandem with the local community organisation, have developed a new gteic facility (shared working space) at Cillín Liath where nine individual glass-encased and lockable work booths are available. Managed by Forbairt na Dromoda, this new development complements the existing gteic digital hub at Dún Géagáin, Baile ‘n Sceilg, managed by Comhchoiste Ghaeltacht Uíbh Ráthaigh and which comprises six co-working spaces.
These hub facilities are suited to remote working, freelancers, start-ups, students as well as visitors, and are available either long term or just for the day.
gteic @An Dromaid - email AnDromaid@gteic.ie or call (066) 9474782
gteic @Baile an Sceilg - email BaileanSceilg@gteic.ie or call (066) 9474888
Office Light Caherciveen:
Office Light provides both private and shared offices and working spaces. A modern design along with high quality broadband connection provides an exciting place to collaborate. Contact (087) 2673766 for more information.
Economic Development Unit, Kerry County Council –
if you have a start-up business idea or if you would like to bring your business to South Kerry, contact Bridget Fitzgerald from the Economic Development Unit for advice and support. More information is available at:
The Local Enterprise Office (LEO) - Provides support to assist with the establishment and/or growth of enterprises and sole traders, employing up to ten people. A range of supports are available from feasibility study grants, training, mentoring and various financial supports to support a potential enterprise development.
Local Enterprise Office supports can be accessed at:
South Kerry Development Partnership (SKDP)
CLG is an experienced rural development organisation that was founded in 1991.
SKDP provide a range of enterprise and employment, community development and training support. Information can be found: https://www.southkerry.ie/
SKDP operates the LEADER funding supports for South Kerry. Information on the LEADER programme and the priority areas the scheme focuses on are available here:
https://www.southkerry.ie/rural-development-leader-programme-2014-2020-2/
Spotlight of Local Businesses
Among the industries and sectors that are based in Iveragh/South Kerry are manufacturing, animal medicines, engineering, tourism and food production and processing. The fishing sector is strong in the county as well as the marine sector. The craft industry is also strong in Kerry and many artists are based in the county and take inspiration from the landscape around them.
Offices, Work and Enterprise Space
If you would like to register an enterprise space that you have available, please forward the details to us.
Commercial premises can include offices, warehouses, stores, retail spaces, exhibition areas, factory units, production spaces and other buildings that could potentially be adapted for enterprise / commercial use.
If you have such a building / premises, or if you know of one, please contact us, by sending an e-mail to: tascfhorsa@udaras.ie, or please share the details by clicking here.
Enterprise Space Available
To access or to enquire about our database of enterprise/office spaces, please send an email to tascfhorsa@udaras.ie and we will be happy to go through our portfolio with you.
Opportunities for Artists
Visual artists, designers, videographers and writers garner inspiration from the breadth and wealth of physical beauty and landscape of the Iveragh peninsula. Local demand and the summer influx of tourists provide for both a local and seasonal demand.
Creative Places
Uíbh Ráthach is currently in the first phase of the Irish Art’s Council’s “Creative Places” programme.
This will potentially create new opportunities to develop and enrich our local arts infrastructures through sustained, socially engaged arts practices. Over the next few years there will be a focus on developing our natural resources, our cultural strengths and our community’s spirit in order to establish Uíbh Ráthach as a creative location which will have much to offer ambitious and innovative artists.
Uíbh Ráthach is looking to a future where our dynamic, local community of artists and arts practitioners will enjoy enhanced opportunities to create great work and build sustainable careers, for the benefit of all of our society.
Further information is available from creativeplacesur@gmail.com
Broadband and Connectivity
There are a number of providers of broadband services operating in the area, and ongoing upgrades and improvements are currently being made to the infrastructure in the area, particularly in the context of the rollout of the National Broadband Plan.
You can check the availability of fibre broadband (giving speeds of up to 100 Mb/s) at any address nationally through the fibrerollout.ie website, and similarly the status at any premises in relation to the NBP (i.e. where fibre is not going to be available) can be seen on nbi.ie. Information on locally provided broadband services from Ivertec (giving speeds of up to 150 Mb/s) can be found at https://www.ivertec.ie/ , while information on the packages available from SCC Broadband can be accessed at https://www.sccbroadband.ie/
A number of Broadband Connection Points are being developed under the auspices of Kerry County Council at the following locations throughout Iveragh at present
Cable Station, Knightstown, Valentia
Chapeltown Community Centre, Valentia
Kells Bay Railway Station Heritage Centre & Community Space
Derrynane House
Cillín Liath (Ionad Pobail na Dromoda)
Members of the public will be able to access broadband at these centres when they fully operational.