The IGS gathered in Saint George’s Arts & Heritage Centre in Mitchelstown, Co. Cork on 11th October to celebrate the projects supported through its Conservation Grant Programme in 2022 and 2023. Primrose Wilson, IGS Vice-President, thanked IGS London for its essential support in funding the programme and congratulated them in marking the 10th anniversary of its launch. She also reflected on the generosity of the late Homan Potterton through whom the Society has been able to assist conservation projects in counties Meath and Westmeath, and commended IGS members in the US for their continued support of conservation projects in Ireland. She also strongly endorsed the work of the YIGs in raising funds for conservation projects through their events.

GRANTS 2023

IGS London

Fiddown Church, Piltown, Co. Kilkenny (building report) €3,500
Temple Mills House, Co. Kildare (repairs to cast iron pedestrian bridge) €3,500
St George’s Art & Heritage Centre, Co. Cork (repairs to Gothic window) €4,000
Coollatin House, Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow (roof repairs in west wing) €4,000
Altidore Castle, Kilpedder, Co. Wicklow (repairs to external lime render) €4,000
Ballintemple House, Garvagh, Co Londonderry (repairs to front door) €700
Myrtle Grove, Youghal, Co. Cork (window repairs) €3,000
St Stephen’s Church, Mount Street Crescent, Dublin (railing repairs) €5,000
Civic Trust House, Pope’s Quay, Cork (window repairs) €5,000
Gatelodge, Temple House, Ballymote, Co. Sligo (window repairs) €2,250

Homan Potterton

7 Arch Bridge, Trim, Co. Meath (repairs to walls) €2,000
Malone Mausoleum, Co. Westmeath (external repairs) €4,000
Larchill Arcadian Gardens, Co. Meath (repairs to gazebo folly) €1,000
Mount Dalton, Mullingar, Co Westmeath (general conservation works) €3,000

IGS Inc (US)

Hindu Gothic Gateway, Dromana, Co. Waterford (building report) €3,200
Roundwood House, Mountrath, Co Laois (structural repairs) €7,500

YIGs

St Pauls Church, Cahir, Co. Tipperary (window repairs) Sum to be determined

GRANTS 2022

IGS London

Clonalis House, Castlerea, Co. Roscommon (window repairs) €4,000
Beaulieu House: Drogheda, Co Louth (dendrochronological survey) €1,340
Kilrush House, Freshford, Co Kilkenny (repairs to roof lantern) €4,000
St Philip’s Parochial Hall, Dartry, Dublin 6 (general repairs) €2,500
7 Arch Bridge, Trim, Co Meath (restoration of the buttresses) €3,000
Jamesbrook Hall, Midleton, Co. Cork (repair of porch windows) €1,000
Kildrought House, Celbridge, Co Kildare (window repairs) €3,000
Myrtle Grove, Youghal, Co Cork (window repairs) €2,000
Saint George’s Arts & Heritage Centre (repairs to chancel window) €3,000
Bantry House, Bantry, Co. Cork (repairs to balustrades) €4,000
34 Main Street, Chapelizod, Dublin 20 (general repairs) €2,500
Russborough House, Co. Wicklow (drawing room decorative scheme) €1,000
Headfort House, Kells, Co. Meath (window repairs) €4,000

Homan Potterton Grants

St Mary’s Church, Navan, Co. Meath (repairs to clock and bells) €3,000
Tullynally Castle, Co Westmeath (repairs to cast iron gates) €5,000
Malone Mausoleum, Co. Westmeath (conservation report) €2,000

YIGs project

Termon House, Co. Donegal (external works) €1,720