Ireland's Office of Public Works (OPW) has announced free admission to over 80 heritage sites on Saturday, August 17 and Sunday, August 18, the opening weekend of National Heritage Week 2024. There will be free admission to all fee-paying OPW Heritage sites - except for Kilmainham Gaol Museum in Dublin - this weekend. A full list of OPW Heritage sites is available here via HeritageIreland.
ie . There is also a list of events for National Heritage Week 2024 available here via HeritageWeek.ie .
Free weekend for National Heritage Week ✨ Free admission to over 80 @opwireland heritage sites this weekend (17 & 18 August 2024) to celebrate @HeritageWeek 💚 🔗 https://t.co/raQYgvXnho 📷 Ormond Castle. Credit: Dylan Vaughan #HeritageWeek pic.
twitter.com/OzYwVp8qsy Sign up to IrishCentral's newsletter to stay up-to-date with everything Irish! For National Heritage Week 2024, the OPW is inviting visitors to explore the links between people and communities, to look at what brings us together and what connects us. Physical routes dot the landscape, roads, paths, boreens, rivers, and canals, and remind us that societies have always strived to connect.
Discover a pathway into our past at Corlea Trackway Visitor Centre in the form of a togher – an Iron Age road – built in 148 BCE. Corlea Trackway, Co Longford. (Ireland's Content Pool) More recently, at Derrynane House , a 190-year-old poem by Daniel O’Connell’s daughter led to the discovery of a lost pathway in dense woodlands.