Have you done the Camino Cill Chuilinn?

For those who may have forgotten about it, this is the Camino Cill Chuilinn project from Kilcullen for Heritage Week last year, writes Brian Byrne.

With no restrictions on getting out and about now, it's worth taking a look at and considering a walk or cycle around it.

There's also a shorter version.
    

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Revisiting three videos, for Heritage Week

As we have nothing specific happening in Kilcullen for Heritage Week 2021, we're looking back at three short Diary productions from 2018 about heritage in the area that some people may not have seen, writes Brian Byrne. Above is Kilcullen Bridge, outlining 700 years of the town through the bridge that is why our community exists.

   

Here is Old Kilcullen — a Place of Powerful Memory, and below a recollection of the Dan Donnelly Pageant of 1953, at which I sold programmes, making important pocket money. Enjoy.

   

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'A long plot with a long history' - heritage

Image: via Castledermot Local History Group.

National Heritage Week begins today and we have already noted some of the events which are scheduled in County Kildare.

The schedule is ongoing, and this morning the Castledermot Local History Group released a short video outlining the history of the garden behind the community Library. 

It's a simple and beautiful presentation of history of three centuries of a plot of land, encapsulated in three minutes.

Well worth the watch before you head out to any of the other events which you plan to take part in.

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Online printmaking exhibition for Heritage Week

Etching by Mary McGrath.

An addition to the Kildare schedule for National Heritage Week is an online exhibition by members of the Leinster Printmaking Studio.

Available here, the exhibition was installed briefly in the Kilcock Art Gallery in June 2021.

All participants provided examples of their work under the theme of heritage in relation to cultural traditions, language, countryside, historic buildings, historic sites, traditional objects or products including nature, food and crafts, and more.

The Leinster Printmaking Studio is under the direction of Pamela de Brí.

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Heritage Week 2021: Hedgerows

Image: Hedge Laying Association Of Ireland.

Another event for National Heritage Week in the Kildare is a talk on Nature, Conservation and Management of our Native Hedgerow Heritage, by Jimmy O'Byrne of Wild Kildare.

It will begin at 2.30pm on Saturday 14 August on the Derrybeg Community Farm in Celbridge.

Sturdy shoes and clothing suitable for the weather of the day is suggested for participation in the afternoon, which is organised by the Celbridge Heritage and River Catchment Association.

The Hedgerow Restoration Project at Derrybeg is funded by Kildare County Council's Climate Innovation Fund.

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Lots on in Kildare for Heritage Week

There are ten in-person events scheduled for Heritage Week 2021 in County Kildare, spread across the county, writes Brian Byrne. Other projects in the listing are online presentations. The week runs from 14-22 August.

The live events include an art exhibition in McAuley Place in Naas from local Naas artists Greg Hallahan and Andrew Barrett, with stories of the town by Liam Kenny. This event will be videographed by Daniel Dunne, and will run through the week from 14-21 August.

An exploration of cultural heritage in Kildare Town will be held in the Heritage Centre on Market Square from 10am-4pm each day of 17th, 18th and 20th August, with Tom McCutcheon. He will also give a guided walk of the three Medieval Abbeys in the town on Saturday 14, Wednesday 18 and Saturday 21 August, all starting at 11am.

The Heritage of Ardclough will be detailed by Eoghan Corry on 14 August from 2pm, in the tower House Reeve's Castle, a site to which the public do not normally have access. The role of the five local tower houses will be discussed.

Denis Dennehy of the Allen Heritage and History Group will conduct a trip from Locks 19-21 on the Grand Canal, from 6pm on Sunday 15 August. The 2km walk will span five centuries.

An exhibition of works resulting from a research collaboration between Marie Phelan and Audrey Walshe carried out around Castletown House in Celbridge, Co. Kildare is the centre of 'Interventions', at Castletown on Friday 13 to Sunday 15 August open from 10am-5pm.

The Castletown area is also the location for the bicentenary celebration of Lady Louisa Conolly, 1743-1821, at the Tea Lane Graveyard in Celbridge. The event will be presented by Breda Konstantin of the Tea Lane Graveyard Restoration Project.

The North Kildare Beekeepers will talk about their lives and all aspects of their work on Saturday 21 August in the Pleasure Grounds of Castletown, introduced by Kevina Dunne of the OPW and running from 11am-4pm.

There will be a talk on 'Peatlands, Climate and Carbon' on 14 August from 2-4pm, presented by the Irish Peatland Conservation Council. Details from 045 860133. The IPCC is also conducting eaerlier on the same day, from 11am-1pm, a family friendly walk & talk event ‘Discovering the bumblebees and butterflies of Lullymore West’.

The online events are a webinar celebrating the bicentenary of St John's Church in Kill, courtesy of the St John's Church 200th Anniversary Committee on Wednesday 18 August at 7pm, and a talk from the Kill History Group on the War of Independence given by Brian McCabe on 16 August at 8pm.

There's also a virtual Youtube event from the Solas Bhride Centre and Hermitage which introduces both St Brigid’s wells in Kildare town, the Wayside Well and the Garden Well, following a local group of people who took part in a pilgrimage to both wells led by the team from Solas Bhride Spirituality Centre.

More information on the Kildare events is available on the National Heritage Week website here. 

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