Heritage seminar on Saturday

A seminar being held in Kilcullen Heritage Centre next Saturday will provide an interim report on progress of the County Kildare Heritage Plan 2005-2009.

The event is organised by Bridget Loughlin, Heritage Officer at Kildare County Council, and will include presentations on a number of heritage areas across the county.

Following an opening address by Ger Smith, Chairman of the Heritage Forum, Bridget Loughlin will detail some of the projects completed to date.

A talk on The Hedgegrows of County Kildare by consultant Neil Foulkes will be followed by A Road on the Long Ridge -- The Sli Mor, by author Hermann Geissel.

Mario Corrigan will speak on The Hundred Acres -- Kildare Town Heritage Trail, and a discourse on the Thatched Cottages of Kildare by architectural historian Charles Duggan will be followed by the launch by the Mayor of County Kildare, Cllr Fionnuala Dukes, of the book of the same name.

Brian Byrne.