'Women in the Big House' tonight

Kilcullen Heritage Group is organising a talk '150 years of Women's Role in the Big House' as its contribution to National Heritage Week 2009.

The event will take place this Wednesday evening, 26 August, in the Town Hall, and will be a lecture by Colette Jordan, historical researcher on the Duchesses of Leinster who resided in Carton House.

Colette has spent the last number of years collecting information on the Leinster estate and Carton House. She has been associated with the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses & Estates (CSHIHE) since she joined as a researcher in 2004.