Please contact us for details of volunteer opportunities to excavate a Glendalough. No previous experience required! 👇👇👇

The second piece from the #CIFD Design & Crafts Council Ireland #collaboration is from #milliner Wendy Louise Designs who worked with #basketmaker Wicklow Willow #irishdesign #irishfashion #irishcraft #CIFD #dccoi See more ⬇️ youtu.be/C_ssn8_Dvyc

Thatching of our early medieval roundhouse in oaten straw at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC) progresses. Jimmy Lenehan is both a professional thatcher and an archaeologist, so lots of interesting ideas and chats

Wicklow Willow Vouchers - Now on Sale - The Crafty Way to Gift! New Courses Date for 2023 Released This Week! Get over to wicklowwillow.ie/shop/ Now!! Happy Christmas from Us to You!

Last Chance to Fill those Stockings!! Vouchers and Course dates now available at wicklowwillow.ie Happy Christmas!!!

Its #MondayMappery from heritagemaps.ie. This week the John Speed 1610 map ‘The Kingdome of Irland Devided into Severall Provinces, and thé againe devided into Counties. Newly described.’ This image is courtesy of Beinecke Library. View here: collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/153500…

Celebrate St Brigid’s Day traditions with us Sunday 5th & Monday 6th February, Aoife from Wicklow Willow, our local weaving expert, will join us for St Brigid’s cross demonstrations Make it a date for your diary! #visitwicklow #tradition #stbrigidscross #StBrigidsDay

A link to a schools resource pack we created for a commission from Kildare Co.Co. for the upcoming Brigid1500 festival. Learn the Legends of St. Brigid, how to make BRIDÓG Dolls, Brigid's crosses and all about Pollinators! brigid1500.ie/GetInvolved/Sc… SHARE!!

The latest edition of #MondayMappery features a map of Ireland ‘Irlandiae Regnum’ drawn in 1636. These are the Janssonius versions of Mercator’s reworked map published in Amsterdam in 1673. This map appears courtesy of David Rumsey Stanford University

For this week’s #MondayMappery we take a look at Joannes Janssonius's maps of Connacht & Ulster published in 1636. 🔎Check out the place & clan names View in hi-res at bit.ly/3JfXpib This map appears courtesy of the Oireachtas Library & Research Service #HeritageMaps

Take your skills to the next level with the All-Ireland #HeritageSkills Programme⚒️ 8 bursaries are on offer for those studying/working in stonemasonry carpentry joinery bricklaying blacksmithing plastering thatching roofing tiling painting or décor See bit.ly/3kPZ1pJ

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This week’s #MondayMapperyfeatures Jan Jansson’s ‘Comitatus Lageniae - The Countie of Leinster’ published in Amsterdam in 1670. Have a look at the county boundaries and spot the missing county and the now lost county. This map appears courtesy of Raremaps.com

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GHF member Pat Reid Wicklow Willow has been talking to the media about the appalling vandalism of the Deer Stone at Glendalough. Tx Pat. Its really hard to imagine how someone comes to do this - it would take real effort. RTE 1/ irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/0…

And the Journal 3/ thejournal.ie/glendalough-de…

"It has sat here for well over a thousand years and has never suffered such damage." Heritage experts fear lasting damage may have been caused to a centuries-old monument known as the Deer Stone in Glendalough, Co Wicklow. Read more: rte.ie/b/1398883

Today's #MondayMappery, from 1719 Raremaps.com, refers to our Three Sisters rivers as the Barrieu Flow, the Nura Flow and sadly, the Sewer Flow! See globe on top left is without North America, an unknown frontier at the time. Map in hi-res bit.ly/3KQ843Q

To all #HeritageMaps users, we would really value your input into the below survey if you could take the time to fill it out! We want to know how we can improve it. survey123.arcgis.com/share/a9ffc7af…

The Heritage Council needs you! If you use our #HeritageMaps page, please take 5 minutes to fill out this survey. We would love to hear your thoughts on how we can improve it. bit.ly/44lwcC0 heritagemaps.ie