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Engaging Heritage Week programme of events at Athlone Castle Visitor Centre
Athlone Castle Visitor Centre will once again deliver an exciting and engaging programme of events during National Heritage Week 2023 (August 12-20), in collaboration with a broad selection of specialist experts, facilitators, artisans and historians, supported by the Heritage Council under the Irish Walled Towns Network 2023 Interpretation Fund.
Engaging Heritage Week programme of events at Athlone Castle Visitor Centre
Athlone Castle Visitor Centre will once again deliver an exciting and engaging programme of events during National Heritage Week 2023 (August 12-20), in collaboration with a broad selection of specialist experts, facilitators, artisans and historians, supported by the Heritage Council under the Irish Walled Towns Network 2023 Interpretation Fund.
The priest who stole Cong’s famous cross
The Cross of Cong, one of Ireland’s great ecclesiastical treasures, was reputedly made at Cloncraff monastary, Co Roscommon. Its unsurpassed craftsmanship was inspired by its relic, a splinter of the wood of the cross on which Christ was crucified.
‘How exciting it was to be a Catholic’
When Clare Sheridan bought Spanish Arch House in the late autumn of 1946, she was seeking refuge from an eventful life, to find peace and quiet to continue her sculpture, and needed time to give expression to her religious fervour. She had recently converted to Catholicism, and could not resist telling anyone who listened ‘how exciting it was to be a Catholic.’
Kenny's Bookshop and Gallery at 80
On a day in October 1936, a young woman, Maureen Canning, from Mohill, County Leitrim, left her digs in Lower Salthill and began to walk, for the first time, to what was then University College Galway.
The Athy Doorway
The Athy family are of great antiquity in Galway. They were originally Anglo-Norman, but on coming here, they quickly became one of the original Tribes. Their estates were mainly in the Oranmore area, they owned the Rinville Estate. They are credited with being the first family to erect a stone building in the city in the 13th century. Castles associated with the family through the years are Ballylee, Carrigín, Glinsk, Castletown, Rinville, Claregalway, Ardmullivan, De Bermingham’s, Aughnanure, and Castledaly.
