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People, Place and Politics

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

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  • 2026 AGM
    We are holding our Annual General Meeting on Thursday 24th September at 7.30pm in the Friary Hall, (sited behind the main Friary building) in Rossnowlagh, Co Donegal. We will discuss our future plans and have displays of our conservation efforts to date. Everybody is welcome and we hope you can attend.
Archive
  • 2026 AGM
  • 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 23rd 2026
  • Heritage Week Event 2025 The Roots & Foundation of Kilbarron Castle
  • 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

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Whats’s New

  • 2026 AGM 15 September 2026
  • Heritage Week Event Sunday August 23rd 2026 13 August 2026
  • Kilbarron Church Conservation Plan 2024 6 December 2025

News

  • Kilbarron Church Conservation Plan 2024
    We have have been successful in 2024 to receive a grant offer through the Community Monuments Fund to further work on the conservation of Kilbarron Church. This is the third year and final year of our major conservation work at the site of the old Kilbarron church site. While in 2022 the conservation work was ...
  • 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

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