Barntown Heritage Group

Underwater Biodiversity of the Wexford Coast Thurs 19th May @ 7.30pm, Barntown Community Centre. Sub-Aqua Club diver & photographer Ivan Donoghue will take you on a visual journey around the underwater dive sites of Wexford showcasing the amazing aquatic life around our coast.

New bench installed at the Trinity Grotto, Forth Mountain, Co Wexford. A great addition to the Forth Mountain Trails 👍 A word of thanks to Tom Dempsey, Boo Dempsey, Adrian Doyle and finally to #wexfordlocaldevelopment for their ongoing support 👍

We are delighted with our award and really enjoyed our National Heritage Week Events. So thank you @HeritageHubIRE

@JamesBrowneTD Thanks @JamesBrowneTD its much appreciated. We are delighted with the award 💜💛

Congratulations to the @BarntownGroup on winning the National Heritage Award for County Wexford. 🟪🟨 #NationalHeritageAwards

Always inspiring Three Rocks 1798 Monument, Forth Mountain, Barntown, Co. Wexford

The LIDAR Survey of the remains of the prehistoric cairn of Clourane. The remains of this cairn are situated on the ridge of Forth Mountain, which once overlooked the ancient Kingdoms of Forth and Shelmaliere.  This survey was funded by The Heritage Council.

The completion of surface preparation for our planned LIDAR Survey of the cairns remains. The remains of this cairn are situated on the ridge of Forth Mountain, which once overlooked the ancient Kingdoms of Forth and Shelmaliere.  This survey is funded by The Heritage Council.

The remains of the Cairn of Clourane - Site preparation works for our LIDAR Survey. A massive word of thanks to our volunteers and #wexfordlocaldevelopment. Preparation works were approved by the National Monuments Service. Photos of after and before works. #theheritagecouncil

The Conservation of Furlong's Homestead Day 28 Today, in the sunshine volunteers Pauline and Carmel went whitewashing the building's walls and what a great job they did. The next job is to bring the rear wall up to wallplate level & sealed before the winter. #conservation

Historic Structures Fund 2021 Phase 1 of our project Safeguarding the Castle is now complete. This week, saw the completion of the stabilisation works to the base of the tower house & we said goodbye to Martin Codd & the stonemason crew, for now!. #Historicstructuresfund2021

THE SAFEGUARDING OF THE CASTLE CONTINUES....FRIDAY 13TH AUG Today the stonemasons continued outside consolidating the stonework on the west facing wall. Inside the tower works began on consolidating the inner west and south wall. gofund.me/2a11214a #Historicstructuresfund

SAFEGUARDING THE CASTLE Over the past two days Codd Architectural Stone Masons prepared the base of the tower house walls, to make ready for the stone repair works. Today saw the start of the large gaps in the walls around the base of the tower been filled and repointed.

The Conservation of Furlong's Homestead - Day 26 Today stonemason Pat Hickey and the volunteers were back at the homestead. In between the showers works continued with preparing the stone clay mortar joints, followed by the extensive work filling the joints with lime mortar.

The Giant Woodwasp Recently while around Furlong's Homestead in Forth Mountain, we came across this guy, a Giant woodwasp or sometimes called a horntail, for obvious reasons. While they can look intimating and are noisy fliers, they are totally harmless. Photo credit wlgf

@Medievalists Thank you very much for sharing, its very much appreciated 👍👍

Barntown Heritage Group is raising money for much-needed repair work on this medieval tower house #castles #medievaltwitter

Toilet Facilities now open in Carrigfoyle. Another much needed addition to trails across Forth Mountain. A word of thanks to the Borough District of Wexford, Mayor Garry Laffan and the Councillors of the district. No excuse now, get out and walk #Carrigfoyle

@tracksntrailsTV @Wexford_Walking @visitwexford @WexfordTrails @wexfordcoco That would be great to see you all again 👍

@Wexford_Walking @BarntownGroup @visitwexford @WexfordTrails @wexfordcoco Fantastic to see! We will have to go back for a visit and bring the cameras!

A scene we came across while filming #ThreeRocksTrail in @visitwexford 'Furlong's Homestead' being restored 'in the spirit of the place' - a joy to watch the work. Anyone got any recent pics they could share with us? @WexfordTrails @Wexford_Walking @wexfordcoco #TracksandTrails

SURVEYING THE CASTLE FIELD Last week, we were delighted to have Earth Sound Geophysics carry out a earth resistance survey of the entire castle field. We are so looking forward to seeing the results of this.

SAFEGUARDING BARNTOWN CASTLE Barntown Heritage Group are continuing to raise money for our planned repair works to Barntown Castle and we need your help to reach our target. If you can help please click on the GOFUNDME link below for more information. gofundme.com/f/save-barntow…