Connemara's Hidden Heritage

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Description of event

Join us for this FREE Conference –

You can download the full programme below.

Friday 26th April

• ‘Exploring the Geological Heritage of Connemara’ Prof Martin Feely
• ‘The early history of Oughterard -a Hanoverian Fort on the Irish Frontier’ Michael Gibbons
• ‘The Engineering Heritage of Connemara’ Paul Duffy
• ‘300 years of Connemara gardening Heritage’ Breandan O Scanaill
• ‘Connemara Local history Sources available in Island House Library’ Maureen Moran

Saturday 27th April

• ‘Archival Sources in Galway County Council Archives’ Patria McWalter
• ‘Connemara Landed Estates Database’ Marie Boran
• ‘From Poverty to Prosperity: Emigration from Connemara in the Nineteenth century’ Dr. Gerard Moran
• ”Soupers and Jumpers, the Protestant missions in Connemara 1848 – 1932′ Dr. Miriam Moffitt
• ‘Connemara emerging to modernity’ Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill
• ‘Oughterard Heritage on the Web’ Dave Collins

Location

Church of Ireland
Oughterard
Galway

Organised By:

Oughterard Culture & Heritage Group & The Galway Heritage Office

To Book please contact:

David Collins: 091 550547/087 6579724

dcardnasillagh@eircom.net

Marie Mannion, Galway Heritage Officer 091 509198

mmannion@galwaycoco.ie

Gráinne Smyth, Galway Heritage Office 091 509121

gsmyth@galwaycoco.ie

Website

http://www.oughterardheritage.org