Heritage Week 2024
St. Kevin's Church is holding an open-day for Hertiage Week 2024 on 18th August.
The schedule for the day is:
- 10.30 - Service of Holy Communion (all are welcome)
- 12.00 - Presentation from Conservation Plan team (Laura Bowen, Lisa Edden and Yvonne Whitty) about the conservation project on St. Kevin's Church. Susan Roundtree, Cormac Allen and Nicki Matthews, also members of the Conservation Plan team will be in attendance.
- 14.30 - Lecture: Ladies Day at Punchestown Race, 120 Years of Fashion
- 15.30 - Lecture: Graveyards and Genealogical Resarch, an introduction
- 16.30 - Lecture: Wicklow and World War 1
To highlight the theme of the 2024 Heritage Week, 'Connectons, Routes and Networks', and St. Kevin's connections with Hollywood and Glendalough, a reciprocal event is being held at Glendalough, where St. Kevin's Church in the Monastic Site will be open to the public between 14.30 and 16.30 on Sunday 18 August. An OPW guide will be present on the day to answer any questions you may have about one of the best preserved Early Medieval Churches in Ireland. Further details are available here.
For those who would like to learn more about St. Kevin, his connections with Hollwyood and Glendalough, and the history and archaeology of the Medieval Pilgram Road connecting Hollywood, Valleymount and Glendalough, you may be interestd in the events below:
Aidan O'Sullivan (Professor of Archaeology, UCD) is giving a lecture on the archaeological discoveries made on the Medieval Pilgrim road between Hollywood, Valleymount and Glendalough in the Mountain Rescue Base in Trooperstown Laragh on Aug 22nd at 19.30 which is part of The Wicklow Mountains National Park Summer Lecture Series but is very much in keeping of the theme of National Heritage Week this year.
We are also organising a walk in conjunction with Wicklow Mountains National Park and The Glendalough Heritage Forum on Aug 25th between 13.30 and 17.30 on a section of the St Kevin's Pilgrim Path from Turlough Hill to Glendalough with talks on the archaeological, historical, ecological and industrial heritage by various experts along the way and we are collaborating with The St Kevin's Way committee regarding this.