Open Invitation Tea Lane Graveyard Committee will launch a Pop Up Exhibition at 3 pm At Tea Lane Graveyard Celbridge Sunday 31st January 2016 Tea Lane Graveyard is the burial ground of Willam “Speaker“ Conolly, Henry Grattan junior MP and the Dongans, former owners of Castletown Estate. Your presence…
“The Decline and Fall of the Dukes of Leinster” Illustrated Talk with Terence Dooley Department of History NUIM Venue: Silken Thomas, Kildare Town Wed 6th January 2016 8 pm For further information contact Joe Connelly at 086 1686236
The County Kildare Archaeological Society Programme for 2016 with associated membership and booking forms may accessed here: 2016 Programme
The following articles from the Co. Kildare Archaeological Society Journal have been added to the website On the Lord Walter Fitzgerald Prize Winners Page: Chris Lawlor. “Sir Richard Bulkeley and the Foundation of Dunlavin Village” Sinéad Quirke “Wentworth’s wisdom or Strafford’s Folly: the early seventeenth-century house at Jigginstown, Naas, Co…
This article by Eamon Kane appeared in the Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society, 2008-2009, Vol XX (Part 1) Cath Bealaigh Mughna
Featuring the Baldonnel Singers and the Army No. 1 Band With special guests Paul Linehan & Norah King Sunday 15th November at 8 pm in St Brigid’s Garrison Church, Curragh Camp PROCEEDS IN AID OF THE CURRAGH MILITARY MUSEUM AND THE CURRAGH LOURDES FUND Tickets €20 each, available from the…
Please circulate to all who maybe interested please. You are cordially invited to the launch by Cllr. Fiona O’Loughlin Chair of the Kildare County Council Decade of Commemorations Committee of Foremost and Ready: Kildare and the 1916 Rising by James Durney The Council Chamber Naas Town Hall Friday, 20 November 2015,…
LECTURE 2 Monday, 16 November 8.00 pm Jeanne Meldon (vice-chair and a director of the Castletown Foundation) From green pastures to designed landscape: new reflections on the evolution of the Castletown demesne and the role of the forgotten Conolly Castletown today comprises a large demesne with parkland, riverside walks, woodland and areas…
A series of public lectures on the revolutionary decade from 1913 to 1923 with a particular focus on the Easter Rising Happening on the last Tuesday of each month, at 8 p.m. in Teach Diarmada, Castledermot. Entry 2 euro/members free. More events will be added to the programme over the…
