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People, Place and Politics

Posts about the people, place and politics of the Castle.

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  • Kilbarron Church Conservation Work in 2024
    The 2024 conservation plan  to conserve the north and south walls along with repairing the kissing gate at the road  entrance as well as replacing the wooden gate at the church entrance was submitted to the Heritage Council in March 2024 and  approved and funded by the Heritage Council in May. The project started to get ...
Archive
  • A diary of the work on the West Gable Wall of Kilbarron Church
  • A Mysterious Lock
  • A Victorian Travellers Guide to Ireland, 1843
  • An 18th Century visitor to Ballyshannon
  • An Illustrated Handbook of the Scenery and Antiquities of South Western Donegal
  • Bardic School
  • Bards and Ollamhs
  • Essay on the parish of Kilbarron 1837
  • Heritage Week Event Sunday August 21st 2022
  • Irish Penny Journal, 1841
  • Kilbarron Church Conservation Work in 2024
  • Last Occupant of Kilbarron Castle
  • Photogrammetry Survey
  • The Bardic Tradition
  • The Last King of Ulster
  • The Living Heritage of Kilbarron Church- Heritage Week Sunday August 13th 2023
  • The Routes around Kilbarron Church- Sunday 18th August 2024
  • The ruins of Kilbarron Church and its place in the landscape
  • The Story of Kilbarron Castle Part 1
  • The Story of Kilbarron Castle Part 2

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  • Kilbarron Church Conservation Work in 2024 11 November 2024
  • The Routes around Kilbarron Church- Sunday 18th August 2024 4 August 2024
  • A diary of the work on the West Gable Wall of Kilbarron Church 13 December 2023

News

  • Kilbarron Church Conservation Plan 2023
    West gable wall Kilbarron Church We have received a grant offer through the Community Monuments Fund to further work on the conservation of Kilbarron Church. We plan to replace the fractured lintel over the entrance and conserve the west gable wall which is almost still intact after being ruinous for over four hundred years. The ...
  • Work completed on East wall of Kilbarron Church
    The conservation work on the east wall of the church was completed in October 2022.. The ivy that was putting the wall out of shape has been removed and all the stonework reset and repointed using recommended lime mortar mix.
  • Heritage Week 2021 Event
    Heritage Week 2021 Report, the Committee were active at Kilbarron Church and presented virtual events on Zoom including a virtual tour of the Church ruins along with the Castle from the sea.
  • Defending Kilbarron Castle
    1 May 2019
  • Heritage Week 2022 The Heritage & Bio-diversity of Kilbarron Church
    Old Kilbarron Church We held our Heritage Week Events on Sunday 21st August at the Abbey Mill Tea rooms starting at 2pm.Now you might wonder why did we not hold the event at Old Kilbarron Church -well at the time we thought that the conservation work at the church may have begun and it would ...

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