Date/Time
Date(s) - 26/05/2017
09:45 - 16:00
Location
Carlingford Heritage Centre
Category(ies) No Categories
The IWTN is running a free conference on how heritage, when sustainably used, can be employed on initiatives that enhance the livability of a town and are also of direct economic benefit.
9.45 Registration Opens
10.25 Welcome
10.30 Managing Carlingford for visitors and residents
Paraic McKevitt, Carlingford Community Forum
11.00 The Gobbins coastal path as both tourist attraction and community hub
Alister Bell, Manager, The Gobbins Cliff Path
11.30 The Meitheal Mara community boatyard
Cathy Buchanan, General Manager, Meitheal Mara
12-12.15Break
12.15 Living James Joyce in Sweny’s Pharmacy
Speaker TBC
12.45 Creating the 46km Waterford Greenway
Richie Walsh, Head of Enterprise, Waterford and City Council
1.15-2.30 Lunch
2.30 Designing Buttevant’s River Walk and incorporating the route’s built and natural heritage
Cathal O’Meara, Principal, Cathal O’Meara Landscape Architects
3.00 Black Friary Archaeology Dig: nurturing community participation and developing its tourism potential
Finola O’Carroll, Director, Irish Archaeology Field School
3.30 Conserving and presenting the abandoned medieval town of Rindoon
Kevin Blackwood, Architect, Blackwood Associates Architects
4.00 Close
Contact Liam Mannix lmannix@heritagecouncil.ie to book a free place.