Curious Ireland is designed to offer a fresh way of exploring Ireland’s heritage by bringing together the history of our architecture with photography and state-of-the-art mapping. To discover over 6000 years of our most significant buildings, landmarks and monuments simply browse through the maps, menus and articles. The site will also offer a heritage hub [...]
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Taken in the years 1656-1658, the Down Survey of Ireland is the first ever detailed land survey on a national scale anywhere in the world. The survey sought to measure all the land to be forfeited by the Catholic Irish in order to facilitate its redistribution to Merchant Adventurers and English soldiers. Copies of [...]
Adults Events: Newbridge Library Adults Book Club meet the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7pm and new members are welcome. The library supplies the books. The next meeting will be May 21st. On Tuesday 11th June at 7pm there will be an Author visit by Catherine Dunne to talk about her latest novel ‘The [...]
A conference celebrating the 650th Anniversary of the Unification of the Dioceses of Waterford and Lismore. Waterford Museum of Treasures is organising a major conference in Waterford to mark the 650th anniversary of the unification of the Dioceses of Waterford and Lismore. The conference will be held on the weekend of the 14th – [...]
There will be a Traditional Day in Millmount as part of the Drogheda Arts Festival on Sunday May 5th from 1pm -5pm with a feast of Irish music, song and dance in this ancient hill-fortress overlooking the river Boyne and best of all it’s free. . There will be continuous performances and workshops in 5 venues on [...]
On Sunday the 2nd of June the Valentia Island Lighthouse will be officially open to the public for the first time. The project will put this incredible heritage site in the hands of the community with a long term lease to manage the project as a tourist attraction. Initially the public will be offered guided [...]
This volume is now available on this site. Among the places and subjects covered in the volume are: The Curragh, Furness, Moone High Cross, Clane, Donadea, Clongowes Wood, Original Anglo-Norman Settlers in Co. Kildare, New Abbey Kilcullen, Castlemartin, The Wolfe Family of Co. Kildare and many others. You can access the volume by clicking on [...]
Friends of Medieval Dublin 15th Medieval Dublin Symposium Saturday 25 May 2013 Robert Emmet Theatre (Room 2037) Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin 09.30 Registration and opening remarks Seán Duffy 09.40 The importance of women in measuring the Irishness of Viking Dublin Patrick F. Wallace 10.30 Dublin and the Late Roman comb Ian Riddler 11.10 Tea & coffee [...]
‘Secrets of the Irish Landscape’ is a three part series presented by popular televisions presenter Derek Mooney, which tells the history on how the Irish landscape came to be, using the very latest scientific research. It features some of Ireland’s leading minds to present in an engaging way the story of Ireland’s natural history as [...]
We are exploring ways of putting the Journal of the Co. Kildare Archaeological Society on-line. As part of this process, Vol 111 of the Journal is now available on-line JKAS Vol 111. Depending on the speed of your Internet connection this volume may be slow/very slow to load.
