Explore Your Archive Week

Explore Your Archive is an annual campaign in Ireland and the UK to highlight archive collections, with a different theme assigned to each day, writes Mary Orford. As part of our Brigid 1500 project, we thought it was timely to showcase a few photos from the Meitheal of Memories archive of our community. 

Thanks to all the donors, these scenes of past life in Kilcullen are captured and stored for future generations. 

We will showcase one photo each day on the Diary, for the nine days (an Irish week?).

1. Tradition/Seanchas 25th November

This photo, from the 1930s, was donated by Pearl Groves, née Ennis (RIP). A photographer from a national newspaper (probably the Irish Independent) was passing the Ennis family farm and stopped to ask if he could take a photo. It was printed in the newspaper the following day. Farming practices have changed since then and the Ennis family farm and farmhouse are sadly long gone.

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