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Genealogist John Grenham will be in Galway next week to give a talk on tracing your Galway roots. The free event, organised by Galway County Council and entitled “Tracing your Galway Roots: Discover Your Family History”, is taking place as part of National Heritage Week.

A conference commemorating Alexander Nimmo’s founding of Roundstone and Hely Dutton’s Statistical Survey of Galway will be held next week. The event on Wednesday July 24 at Roundstone Community Centre, Roundstone, Co. Galway H91 C99W is titled Roundstone’s Hidden Heritage, 1824-2024.

The heritage of Galway’s agricultural and veterinary development will be celebrated and explored in-depth at the upcoming conference titled “Harvesting our Heritage.” This insightful event will take place from 9am to 5pm on Thursday, July 11, at Mountbellew Agricultural College, Mountbellew, Co Galway (H53 WE00).

An exhibition of photographs of wrought iron gates is currently on display in the Atrium of the Athlone Civic Centre and shall remain open to the public until February 23.

A quartet of entries from within the local community were duly recognised at the inaugural Greener Spaces Awards ceremony hosted by Roscommon County Council prior to Christmas.

Roscommon County Council, in conjunction with the Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage, are inviting applications from local communities in South Roscommon for the Community Monuments Fund 2024.

A new Heritage Plan is being prepared for County Westmeath, one which will set out a framework for the work of the Westmeath County Council Heritage Office, in partnership with groups and agencies, to deliver heritage projects within the county.

Loughrea will host a feast of free events this weekend as part of the Loughrea Medieval Festival, taking place from Friday, August 25 to Sunday, August 27.

A new heritage plan is being prepared for Westmeath, one which will establish a framework for the work of Westmeath County Council heritage office, in partnership with groups and agencies, to deliver heritage projects within the county.

Since the summer of 2022, the Heritage Office of Westmeath County Council has been undertaking a major heritage audit, seeking to identify collections of local community oral history, folklore and stories of times past.