Conservation Outreach
Traditional Building Skills Exhibitions
TBS Exhibition, Adare, Co. Limerick, September 2007
As part of the Irish Georgian Society’s Education and Outreach Programme annually the Society holds a Traditional Building and Conservation Skills in Action Exhibition. The purpose of the exhibition is to alert owners of historic buildings to the need for best conservation practice through providing accurate and impartial conservation advice free of charge.
The exhibition actively demonstrates the skills necessary for the repair of historic buildings to include stone-cutting, wood-carving, timber sash window restoration, traditional ironwork conservation, decorative plasterwork, pole lathe turning, lime-slaking, slate dressing, cleaning and re-pointing of brick facades, building of traditional stone walls and thatching to name a few.
The annual exhibitions are sponsored by The Heritage Council and the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and are done in association with local government’s conservation departments. In 2006 the Society worked in partnership with Dublin City Council, while in 2007 the Society hosted the exhibition with Limerick County Council.
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