Heritage Unit News Today

21 February 2024 By Bryan McCarthy bryan@TheCork.ie In celebration of National Tree Week 2024, Cork County Council is offering a number of native trees to schools, community groups and organisations. National Tree Week is an initiative of the Tree Council of Ireland and will take place this year from the 3rd to the 10th of…

National Tree Week is an initiative of the Tree Council of Ireland which has been responsible for planting over 4,000 trees in County Cork in the ...

Rafi highlights up-and-coming talents at Tubô Cebu Art Fair

FOR more than seven hundred years, a wooden statue of St. Gobnait, approximately 75cm in length, has been venerated in the parish church nearest to where the widely respected saint is buried.

An event in Ballitore has been added to the Heritage Week Line-up in Kildare next week.

A guide map an insight into 101 archaeological sites around north and east Cork has been launched by County Mayor, Cllr Frank O’Flynn.

30 May 2023 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie "The new guide complements the Council’s Historic Towns Map series now available for 11 towns in Cork County, including Bantry, Skibbereen, Clonakilty, Schull, Dunmanway, Castletownbere, Kinsale and Bandon." The Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr. Danny Collins recently launched a new guide map highlighting the rich and…

1 May 2023 By Bryan McCarthy bryan@TheCork.ie The map is available to downloaded at https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/visitor/cork-county-historic-town-maps Cork County Council has launched a Historic Town Map of Fermoy. The informative illustrated map highlights key heritage sites and buildings in the town, offering a self-guided user-friendly informative tour of Fermoy. The Fermoy Town Map presents a brief history…

The Casa Gorordo Museum produced another first for Cebu at Semana Santa 2023 in coordination with the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In November of 2018 in observance of Veterans Day, Kansas City Southern introduced a newly painted in a patriotic paint scheme for Locomotive 4006.