Our Wicklow Heritage: Community Archaeology

Our Wicklow Heritage is a one day public event focussing on community archaeology. The event will provide an opportunity to hear about community archaeology and specifically about a range of projects currently taking place in county Wicklow. Mutual issues and challenges faced by groups will be discussed and opportunities available nationally through the Heritage Council’s Adopt a Monument Scheme and through the actions of the County Heritage Plan will be explored.

This public event co-ordinated by the Heritage Office of Wicklow County Council and is co-funded by the Heritage Council as an action of the County Wicklow Heritage Plan. While it is free of charge to attend, places are limited and advance booking is required.

Programme

10.00 – 10.15 Welcome: Aims & Context, Deirdre Burns, Heritage Officer, Wicklow County Council

10.15 – 10.30 Community Archaeology in Fingal– Christine Baker, Community Archaeologist, Fingal County Council

10. 30 – 10.45 The Wicklow Rock Art Project – Clíodhna Ní Lionain

Q & A

11.00 TEA/COFFEE

11.30 – 11.45 Heritage Recording via the PURE Mile – Glenmalure Pure Mile group

11.45 – 12.00 The Medieval Bray Project – David McIlreavy

12.00 – 12.15 Spinans Hill Photogrammetry Project – James O Driscoll

12.15 – 12.30 The Adopt A Monument Scheme: – Roisin Burke & Neil Jackman Abarta Heritage

12.30 –12.45 Glendalough Heritage Forum Collaboration – Graeme Warren, School of Archaeology, UCD

12.45 – 1.00 Community Owned Archaeology: a perspective from the field.

- Paul Duffy

1.00- 1.45 LUNCH

1.45 – 2.45 The Preban Graveyard Heritage Project –Introduced by Yvonne Whitty & Jack Lynch followed by a film screening (40 mins)

Q & A

2.45 - 3.45 Workshop Session: Where to next?

Group exercise and feedback

3.45- 4.00 Close and wrap up– Deirdre Burns

4.00 Glendalough Graveyard Trail –an optional guided tour led by Joan Kavanagh. This trail was created by local volunteers in association with the Glendalough Heritage Forum following their survey of the graveyard with John Tierney of www.historicgraves.ie