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Offaly’s Fancroft Mill wins out at prestigious Industrial Heritage Association of Ireland Awards 2019

Dec 24, 2019 Attractions, Awards 0


Offaly’s Fancroft Mill wins out at prestigious Industrial Heritage Association of Ireland Awards 2019
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Other winners include Limerick team for restoration of the ‘Ilen’ 1920s boat and Cork author Kieran McCarthy for his book on Cork Harbour
ESB’s Archive and Heritage Manager and Dublin native Brendan Delany honoured with lifetime achievement award
Awards took place in ESB’s new Archive building last night (11 December)

Fancroft Mill and Gardens in South Offaly has won the Norman Campion Award Best Museum/Industrial Heritage Site at the prestigious Industrial Heritage Association of Ireland (IHAI) Awards 2019.

The award recognises the professional and sympathetic restoration work of this significant historical site from dereliction, located on the Little Brosna river 4km north of Roscrea, that was first started by Marcus and Irene Sweeney in 2006. The award is named in honour of Offaly native and miller Norman Campion, a founding member of the IHAI, who sadly passed away earlier this year.

Other awards went to a team in Limerick, led by Gary MacMahon, for rebuilding the The Ilen, a 1920s 50ft timber- and Baltimore- built ketch, which was deployed around the Falklands in the South Atlantic for 70 years. Much of the reconstruction of what is the last of Ireland’s traditional wooden built shops has been by volunteers in Limerick and Baltimore, with the help of professional boat builders.

Another maritime-flavoured project also received an award. Kieran McCarthy author of The Little Book of Cork Harbour won the Mary Mulvihill Media Award of Best Publication.

Rounding off the award winners on the evening, fittingly hosted at ESB’s new archive building in Finglas is Brendan Delany, ESB Archives & Heritage Manager for a life-long and central role in development of ESB’s archive into a digital, interactive resources for all the cherish.

Nicholas Tarrant, ESB Executive Director Engineering and Major Projects hosted the evening. Welcoming guests and congratulating the award winners, he says: “The Industrial Heritage Association of Ireland was created by people of vision and commitment and the fruits of earlier efforts have served to create a notable increase in awareness of our rich industrial past. The Association recognises that we should not only have a sense of shared ownership for our past but it is something we strive to safeguard and celebrate. It is also ESB’s pleasure to host the awards in our new Archive. A landmark development for ESB, it represents a tangible delivery to both celebrate and safeguard our history and heritage which forms part of the story of the industrial, commercial and social development of Ireland.”

Paul McMahon President of IHAI adds: “IHAI are delighted with the continued and invaluable sponsorship of these Awards from ESB which seek to give recognition to individuals and organisations who have made an outstanding contribution to promoting and safeguarding industrial heritage on an all-Ireland basis. It is important that we both recognise and celebrate achievement. We also wish to congratulate ESB on the development of their new Archive as it will be a wonderful resource for all those interested in the social development of this country and more particularly those interested in industrial history.”

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