What happened - February 1st - 3rd, 2013
Friday 1st: Church Service 7:30pm to celebrate St. Brigid - Refreshments afterwards
Saturday 2nd: Opening Ceremony with special guests
Guided tours of Church & Graveyard from 10am
Find your ancestors, headstones from the late 1600’s.Take a tour of a 300 year old Church. The resting place of the founders of Stillorgan, Verschoyles, Deane Gradys, Wolverstons, Wingfields & Goughs. The graveyard has been mapped with the help of The school of Spatial Planning at DIT See http://www.dit.ie/spatialplanning/ to find out more about this
Other activities include:
Saturday 2nd : Supper with entertainment 8pm
Sunday 3rd: Service at 11:30am Followed by light refreshments
Saturday 2nd: Opening Ceremony with special guests
Guided tours of Church & Graveyard from 10am
Find your ancestors, headstones from the late 1600’s.Take a tour of a 300 year old Church. The resting place of the founders of Stillorgan, Verschoyles, Deane Gradys, Wolverstons, Wingfields & Goughs. The graveyard has been mapped with the help of The school of Spatial Planning at DIT See http://www.dit.ie/spatialplanning/ to find out more about this
Other activities include:
- Children’s Arts and Crafts Table
- All day café.
- Music with Clive Armstrong,
- The Enniskerry's Celtic Grace Choir
- Exhibition in Parish Hall of Maps and Old Photos of Stillorgan. Photographic exhibition of the William Orpen paintings by Dominic Lee.
- Talks by local historians on Herr Elsner, Edward Pearse Lovett, Gerard Kuss, Archbishop Whately to name but a few.
- The Genealogical Society of Ireland will be on hand to help you start your family tree with talks on the hour. http://www.familyhistory.ie/
- Local genealogist Tom Coughlan will advise on how to find those missing links. www.tomcoughlan.net
- Talks by Stillorgan & Kilmacud Historical Society, Mount Merrion Historical Society & Foxrock Historical Society
Saturday 2nd : Supper with entertainment 8pm
Sunday 3rd: Service at 11:30am Followed by light refreshments
