Thousands of euro awarded in heritage funding across Tipperary
Works to monastic ruins, a Quaker cemetery, and a barn owl project funded
€25,000 has been granted for the conservation of Charles Bianconi's mortuary chapel in Boherlahan village under the Heritage Council’s Community Heritage Grant Scheme, one of six projects in the county to be awarded grants in an announcement made on Thursday morning, May 21.
Under the same scheme, €9,779 was granted to the Clonmel Junction Arts Festival for the ‘Celebration of the Hidden Heritage of Clonmel’. Another €25,000 was granted to Burncourt Community Council for works to the Mountain Lodge in Glengarra Woods in Burncourt, and the same amount again for a conservation plan for the Glenkeen monastic ruin and graveyard outside of Borrisoleaigh.
The Clonmel Tidy Towns group were funded to the tune of €5,600 for the mapping and documentation of Clonmel Quaker cemetery, while the Monard Tidy Towns group €3,030 for a barn owl and kestrel project.
All funded projects are required to host an in-person event during National Heritage Week between August 15 and 23.