Delaney's of the Slatequarries and what it meant to South Kilkenny
Jimmy Walsh reminisces about Delaney's of the Slatequarries
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Jimmy Walsh reminisces about Delaney's of the Slatequarries
This year National Heritage Week marks a return to in-person events, with a focus on sustainable heritage and biodiversity, while Sunday, August 21 will see a s...
'GEANSAITHE NUA' - from this week's Windgap-Tullahought Notes
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Sunrise over Baunfree Hill lighting the eastern chamber. The Neolithic period saw the arrival of the first farmers to Ireland around 4000BC. They brought with them better farming systems and domesticated animals, which in time pushed out the nomadic hunters. Tools were an important introduction also, from stone axes to querns for grinding corn. Farming was mixed, forests were cleared and farmland such as the Céide fields in Co Mayo were laid out. The people of this period also built the megalithic tombs, the most familiar of these to us is most likely Newgrange in Co Meath. Tombs like Ne...