The wonderful work of the Irish Landmark Trust continues unabated with the opening of Salterbridge Lodge, Cappoquin, Co Waterford. The mid-18th-Century classically-proportioned gatelodge was completely restored in 2001.
The Irish Landmark Trust has a 35-year lease on the property, which is owned by the Wingfield family of Salterbridge estate. "This is a great way to save buildings when owners are longsighted enough to see the value of giving us a long term lease for a 'peppercorn' rent in exchange for complete restoration of their property," says Tamsin Young, project development officer with the Irish Landmark Trust. The restoration of Salterbridge Lodge brings to seven the number of properties which have been restored by the Irish Landmark Trust. The other properties are Clonmantagh Castle, Co Kilkenny, the medieval miniature castle at Anne's Grove, Co Cork, Wicklow Head lighthouse, Co Wicklow, Ballealy Cottage, Co Antrim, Termon House, Co Donegal, and 25 Eustace St, Dublin 2. All are available to rent. Other restoration projects currently in hand are eight lighthouse keeper houses at five headlands around the Irish coastline. The lighthouse keeper house at Galley Head, Co Cork and another at Loop Head, Co Clare are nearing completion and will be open for renting from next month onwards. The Irish Landmark Trust is a charitable, educational trust. Tel: 01-6704733 or e-mail landmark_at_iol.ie.
As we get used to euros in our pockets, the National Museum's lecture series on Irish coinage from the 10th Century to 2001 seems timely. Numismatist, John Stafford-Langan will take a look at coinage in medieval Ireland in the third lecture in the series on Tuesday, at 6.30 p.m. "Art in the Pocket:Yeats and the 1928 free State Coinage" is the title of Colm Gallagher's lecture on Tuesday, February 12th, at 6.30 p.m. Numismatist, Martin McDaid, will conclude the series with his lecture on Irish Paper Money on Tuesday, February 19th, at 6.30 p.m. All lectures take place in the National Museum of Decorative Arts and History, Collins Barracks, Dublin. Admission free. Tel: 01 6777444 for details of lecture series and children's events at the National Museum in Kildare St and Collins Barracks, Dublin, and Turlough Park, Co. Mayo.
Anyone in possession of old family photographs or indeed historic prints of urban streets will be interested in David H. Davison's lecture to the Irish Georgian Society on Tuesday next. An architectural photographer and photographic conservator, Davison will explain how best to care for your photographs and discuss the work of a photographic conservator. The lecture takes place at 7.30 p.m. in the Royal Society of Antiquaries, 63 Merrion Square, Dublin. Tickets € 6.35. Tel: 01 6767053.
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