The Position:
Limerick City and County Council is seeking enthusiastic, skilled and dedicated individuals to join our team as Craft Gardeners. This is an exciting opportunity to make a visible and lasting contribution to the county’s environment, biodiversity and quality of life while working outdoors in a rewarding and varied role. Successful candidates will be placed on a panel from which temporary and permanent vacancies may be filled during the lifetime of the panel.
Why Join Us?
As a Craft Gardener, you will have the opportunity to, create and maintain vibrant parks, gardens and green spaces enjoyed by thousands of residents and visitors, showcase your horticultural expertise through planting design, cultivation and landscape development projects, Contribute to biodiversity, sustainability and environmental enhancement initiatives across the county, work closely with local communities, Tidy Towns groups and residents' associations to deliver attractive and welcoming public spaces and develop your skills through ongoing training, new technologies and varied project work.
Completed application forms must be e-mailed to recruitment@limerick.ie no later than Monday 10th August 2026.
An official application form must be completed in full by the closing date for the competition. Please note that amendments to the application form will not be accepted after the closing date. CV’s will not be accepted in lieu of an application form.
Please send your application from an e-mail address that you will review regularly as communication during the assessment/selection period will only be through that e-mail address. Please also ensure that you regularly review your spam/junk email folder as occasionally your email service provider may direct emails to that fold