Kildare Branch of Birdwatch Ireland
AM will take place next Thursday, 13th of November, in the Town House Hotel at 7.30pm. Monthly talk will begin at 8pm with Eric Dempsey giving a presentation, “My Favourite Birding Sites in Ireland.”
Monthly outing in November is on Saturday 22nd. This is their annual outing to Bull Island, meet at 9am on the Causeway (this is the tarmac road not the wooden one).
Tealane Graveyard Committee
Tealane Graveyard Committee will be hosting a presentation of the Conservation and Management Plan which they commissioned for Tealane cemetery. The plan prepared by prepared Kilkenny Archaeology with funding from the Heritage Council will be presented at on Thursday 20th November at 7.30 in Celbridge Library.
Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates (CSHIHE) /Carton Lecture Series 2014-15
Queen Victoria’s visits to Irish Country Houses 1849-61 with particular reference to Carton House
By Paula Lalor (Maynooth University). On Monday 24 November 8.00 pm
Carton House the home of the FitzGeralds, premier Dukes of Ireland, was among the select few Irish Country Houses visited by Victoria on her first three visits to these shores. The extravagant preparations and renovations, the lavish spending and frenzied excitement surrounding these visits was unlike anything ever seen in Ireland before and would never again be repeated.
Some Garden Plants and their Wild Irish Cousins
By Dr. Declan Doogue F.L.S. Tues 25th Nov @6.30 – 7.45pm. In Newbridge Library.
Following on from Declans last highly acclaimed & engaging talk on Hedgerows we are delighted to have him with us once more to give this talk which is part of a series dealing with the history of field botany in the County of Kildare.
Many familiar garden plants are closely related to less obvious wild plants that live in the the hedgerows and marginal lands of the county. Many of these species are now becoming locally extinct because of land-use changes. Some garden plants can form hybrids with their wild relatives. Recording the spread of escaping garden plants and tracking their interbreeding with local native species is a new area of biological recording that will become more significant as the spreading invasive species come into contact with their native counterparts.
Bridget Loughlin
Heritage Officer, Kildare County Council, Áras Chill Dara,
Devoy Park, Naas, Co Kildare
045 980791 bloughlin@kildarecoco.ie