2021 Awards

Heritage Hero

Patrick Boner, Donegal

Patrick Boner has been involved with local heritage projects in west Donegal for over 20 years and has been involved with many projects in Burtonport and the Rosses. He has been awarded the Heritage Hero Award for his contribution to the preservation, protection and promotion of the local heritage in the area. He is author of ‘The Story of The Cope’, an acclaimed social history of Templecrone Agricultural Co-operative Society and is currently writing ‘Her Story - Sally the Cope’, continuing his focus on the cooperative movement locally. He has researched and produced the Dungloe Heritage Trail, contributed articles to several local history publications, magazines and local newspapers and has played a proactive role in commissioning reports and conservation works on heritage sites/buildings in west Donegal including the Cooperage in Burtonport. Understanding the value of sharing heritage and reaching new generations, Patrick has embraced social media, promoting local projects online. He has also spoken to students in local schools and has organised field trips and boat tours to islands in the region, including Rutland.Through his involvement in heritage, he has acquired a personal collection of items, maps, photographs, postcards and documents, some of which he has now donated to the County Archives, County Museum, and Central Library to benefit future researchers, students and the whole community. He has made an outstanding and tireless contribution to the preservation, conservation, and promotion of heritage in west Donegal, has a passion for promoting the digitalisation of archives and has been involved in the organisation of many National Heritage Week events.

Heritage Sharing Award

Event: “Daughters of Dún Iascaigh historical walking tour”
Organiser: Cahir Women's History Group

Runners up

Event/Project: “Pavee Roads Home”
Organiser: Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre

Event/Project: “Memories of a Cork Jewish Childhood”
Organiser: Ruti Lachs

Heritage For All Ages Award

Event: “A Virtual Saunter Down Ballyshannon's Historic Mall”
Organiser: Ballyshannon Regeneration Group



Runners-up
EventProject: “The way we were”
Organiser: Third Age Foundation CLG

Event/Project: “Grandson-Grandfather interview about the Hugh Moore stained-glass window”
Organiser: Carlingford Lough Heritage Trust

Heritage Newcomers Award

Event: “Colmcille 1500- Kells Illuminations”
Organiser: Colmcille 1500 Kells

Runners-up
Event:/Project Ballybay Then and Now
Organiser: Ballybay Heritage Society

Event:/Project“Weird Wesmeath”
Organiser: Brinsley McNamara

Event:/Project “InterActive Heritage Billboards”
Organiser: Cork Creates

Water Heritage Award

Event: “Citizen scientists’ Water sampling project on the river Suir”
Organiser: Suircan Community Forum

Runners-up
Event: “Stoneybatter Rain Garden Pilot”
Organiser: Bí­ URBAN

Event: “In Search of Otter Poo: Otter ID on Mulkear River”
Organiser: Ruairi­ O Conchuir (Local Authorities Waters Programme)

Wild Child Award

Event: “School Project: Explore Your Local Heritage”
Organiser: Kerry Archaeological & Historical Society, Kerry County Museum and Kerry County Council


Runners-up


Event: “Wild Child Event:”
Organiser: Burrenbeo

Event: “Wild child at Thoor Ballylee”
Organiser: Thoor Ballylee Yeats Society

County Awards

Each local authority has a county award winner. Here is the full list for 2021:

Armagh
“Vernacular Irish Buildings Campaign”
SPAB Ireland

Carlow
“Celebrate the River”
Phil and Don Heenan & The Local Authority Waters Programme


Cavan
“Stories of Owendoon”
Jampa Ling Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Retreat Centre


Clare
“Heritage Week Programme 2021”
Burrenbeo Trust


Cork City
“A History of Irish Travellers” - online animation
Cork Traveller Women's Network


Cork County
“Amazing mosaics at the Church of the Ascension, Timoleague”
Church of the Ascension Timoleague


Derry
Strabane: Landmarks, Meeting Points and Memories
Leonor Bethencourt


Donegal
“Mapping the Heritage of Gleann Cholm Cille Parish”
Oideas Gael


Down
Paddle back in time in Strangford Lough
Unlocking the Vikings, Heritage Walks NI and Strangford Lough Activity Centre


Dublin City
Highlights from the Photographic Collection of the Irish Jewish Museum
Irish Jewish Museum


Dublin -Dun Laoghaire Rathdown
History of childhood from medieval times to the eighteenth century
Museum of Childhood


Dublin- Fingal
“Know Your Naul Heritage Week Programme”
Naul Community Council


Dublin- South Dublin
Clondalkin's Tangible Threads - Irish Crochet in the World
Irish Crochet Lace Revival


Fermanagh
A Milestone to behold
Elliott/Osborne collective


Galway County
Daoine & Áit - People and place
Skehana & District Heritage

Galway City
Heritage week in Merlin Woods, 2021
Friends of Merlin Woods


Kerry
“An ecological investigation of the Tralee Ship Canal”
Tralee Rowing Club


Kildare
“If These Walls Could Talk”


Kilkenny
“Tullahought Church Inside Out & Upside Down”
Tullahought Community Development Ltd.


Laois
“The Portlaoise Plane Returns Home”
Col Fitzmaurice Conservation Committee

Leitrim
“Heritage Week Programme 2021”
The Organic Centre

Limerick
“Women of Limerick”
Ormston House


Longford
Restoring the Balance
Scéalta Beo and Creative Ardagh


Louth
Dromiskin's Famous Daughter, Traveller & Farming Heritage
Dromiskin Tidy Towns


Mayo
“Bronze age experience near Finny and Lough Nafooey”
Joyce Country & Western Lakes GeoEnterprise


Meath
Our Outdoor Living Heritage Museum
Wild About Navan


Monaghan
“Castleshanehistory.ie”
Fionnuala & Liam O’Connor


Offaly
‘Empty Pillars are a Place to Dream’
Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival


Roscommon
“Ballinlough Crannog Digital Interpretative Project”
Ballinlough Granlahan Heritage Group


Sligo
Living among the Cairns
Sligo Neolithic Landscapes group


Tipperary
“Virtual Field Trip of the Slieveardagh Coalfield”
Slieveardagh Mining Interest Group, Virtual Old School Mining Museum


Waterford
“Gallows Hill Exhibition & Artefacts”
Waterford County Museum/Gallowshill Project


Westmeath
Athlone No. 1 Gun Battery - A deafening silence
Athlone no 1 Gun Battery Heritage Group


Wexford
Heritage Week Programme of Event:s 2021
Barntown Heritage Group

Wicklow
Boghall Area, Bray
Bray Cualann historical society