2010
The inaugural National Heritage Week Event Awards saw Cooley Peninsula Tourism and Carlingford Heritage Trust scoop the "Best Overall Event" award. The event Medieval Carlingford went back in time to recreate the environment and ambience from the time of King John's visit in 1210. A recruited family lived in Taaffe's Castle for a week, exactly as they did in 1210!
Best Innovative Event: & Best Overall Event
Event: Medieval Challenge, Taaffe’s Castle
Organiser: Cooley Peninsula Tourism and Carlingford Heritage Trust.
Best Event: Organised By a Community Group
Event: Rinn Duin Heritage Day.
Organiser: St. Johns Parish Heritage Group, Lecarrow, Co. Roscommon.
Best Children’s Event: (under 12’s)
Event: Medieval Madness at Aughnanure Castle, Oughterard, Co. Galway
Organiser: Aughnanure Castle OPW
Best Interactive Event
Event: Water Open Day
Organiser: Lifetime Lab, Lee Road, Cork.
Mr Conor Newman, Chairman, and Isabell Smyth, Head of Education and Communications, The Heritage Council, with the winners
of the Best Interactive Event competition during Heritage Week 2011, for their Water Open Day Event organised by Marvyn Horgan, Lifetime Lab, Lee Road, Cork
