2022 Awards

Heritage Hero

Winner: Teddy Fennelly

County: Laois

Teddy Fennelly from Portlaoise, Co Laois. Teddy Fennelly has been an advocate and enthusiast for local history and heritage in Laois for more than 50 years. He has been honoured with the 2022 Heritage Hero award for his outstanding contribution to the protection and promotion of heritage over that time. He has been pivotal in ensuring that the story of Colonel James Fitzmaurice and first East-West Transatlantic flight in April 1928 is remembered and his book Fitz and the Famous Flight is the definitive work on the subject.

Sustainable Heritage Award Winner

Event: “Ballyshannon Historic Town, Conversation and Conservation”
Organiser: Ballyshannon Regeneration Group

Runners-up


Event:/Project “Preserving the Fishing Heritage & Local History of Clarecastle in Film”
Organiser: Clarecastle & Ballyea Heritage & Wildlife Group


Event: “The Cooper, the Glover, the Broguemaker... Kilteevan Trades and Practices through time”
Organiser: Kilteevan Graveyard Committee

Biodiversity Award Winner

Event: “Bats About Rooks”
Organiser: BirdWatch Ireland in association with Kildare Bat Group & Laois Heritage Office

Runners-up
Event: “Making Meadows”
Organiser: The Life Project

Event: “Sand Dune Celebration”
Organiser: Bertra Connected & Leave No Trace

Wild Child Award

Event: “Myshall Community Family Biodiversity Day”
Organiser: Myshall Nature- Myshall Muintir Na Tire



Runners-up
Event: “Guided tour of Lonehort Battery, Bere Island for Children & their parents”
Organiser: Bere Island Projects Group CLG

Event: Dolphin Scavanger Hunt
Organiser: Irish Whale & Dolphin Group

Water Heritage Award

Event/Project: Blue Dot Coomhola River Booklet
Organiser: Streamscapes



Runners-up


Event/Project: Murroe-Boher Scouts Citizen Science Project
Organiser: 14th Limerick Murroe-Boher Scout Group


Event: Coastal Education and Beach Clean at Templetown Beach
Organiser: Cooley Community Alert in association with Clean Coasts

Sustainable & Inclusive Event Award

Event/Project: “Selling the Past Exhibition”
Organiser: Irish Wheelchair Charity Shop Letterkenny with Donegal County Museum


Runners-up


Event: SPAB Ireland Working Party 2022
Organiser: SPAB Ireland


Event: Purls of Wisdom
Organiser: iCRAG and Irish Fibre Crafters

County Award Winners

The full list of county award winners for 2022.

Carlow
“Memories of our School Days at Rathanna National School”
Rathanna ICA


Cavan
‘In the Footsteps of the Past’
Drumlane History & Heritage Group , Killeshandra Tidy Towns, Templeport Development Association



Clare
“Walk & Talk on Shanakyle Bog”
Shanakyle Bog Restoration Project & Connecting Communities with Peatlands



Cork City
“Heritage Week Programme of Event:s”
Douglas Tidy Towns

Cork County
“Heritage Week Programme of Event:s”
Ted Cook

Derry
Heritage Week Event: Programme
Derry City and Strabane District Council

Donegal
Turas na dTithe Oidhreachta
Togra Fiontar agus Cultúr Uladh in conjunction with Teach Mhicí Mhic Gabhann, Teach Mhuiris & Teach Niall Ó Dónaill.

Dublin City
Middle Ages to Middle Aisle – the archaeology beneath Lidl, Aungier St
IAC Archaeology


Dublin -Dun Laoghaire Rathdown
Citizen Science River Workshop
Marley Grange Residents's Association


Dublin- Fingal
Heritage Week Programme
EIRE 6 Restoration Group

Dublin- South Dublin
St. Finian's medieval church & graveyard by night
Society for Old Lucan

Galway County
An Bhéan Ghlúine
Skehana & District Heritage Group

Galway City
Galways 1,000 History of Canal Building & Milling
Galway Waterways

Kerry

Life in the Bogs - Family Funday
Kerry Biosphere

Kildare
Scything skills on Nicholastown Green
Kilcullen Community Action

Kilkenny
Programme of Events
St. Canice’s Cathedral

Laois

Famine Pot Project
Errill Tidy Towns

Leitrim
Ask about Archaeology
Leitrim Sweathouse Project

Limerick
Askeaton Ballysteen River and Estuary Community Workshops
Askeaton Ballysteen Community Council

Longford
Heritage Week Events Programme
Knights and Conquests Heritage Centre

Louth
70th anniversary of the closure LNWR Railway in Greenore
Greenore Railway Museum at Greenore Co-op


Mayo
Foraging Walk on Cross Strand
Louisburgh & Killeen Heritage

Meath
Oral recording by Irish Life and Lore at Heritage Park and 7 Arch Bridge
Scurlogstown Olympiad Haymaking Festival


Monaghan
Creative heritage inspired by nature and its music
Irish Wildlife Trust Monaghan Branch


Offaly
Clara Music Literary Festival
Clara Heritage Society


Roscommon
The Gortnacrannagh Figure -conference & exhibition on and its context
Rathcroghan Visitor Centre


Sligo
Guided tours of Moygara Castle
Moygara Castle Research & Conservation Project


Tipperary
Programme of Events for Heritage Week
Tipperary Town Revitalisation Group

Waterford
Programme of Events for Heritage Week
Copper Coast Geopark

Westmeath
Guided tours of Cloncrow Raised Bog and Tyrellspass Village
ETHOS- Everything Tyrrellspass has, on show

Wexford
“Castletown River & Nature Festival”
Ahare River & Biodiversity Development Group

Wicklow
The story of Castlekevin
Roundwood & District Historical Society