HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT RECORD OF NORTHERN (HERoNI) LECTURE SERIES 2019/2020

1 GENERAL INFORMATION All lectures will be held from 1–2pm. All are welcome to attend these lectures and admission is free.

role in shaping this great scientific enterprise. This lecture explores this through examining the wider impacts and influences of the activities of the Ordnance Survey (OS) in Ireland of the early-nineteenth century. Global connections were forged between MAPPING the mapping of Ireland and India, for MONUMENTS: example, through the work of surveyors THE EARLY OS IN such as George Everest. His visit to Ireland and South Africa in the early IRELAND AND ITS 1800s were part of Everest’s ambition GLOBAL CONNECTIONS to map India. Through their work these surveyors created new ‘landscapes of Friday 6 September 2019 survey’, building new field-monuments to assist them in their surveys. In this Museum lecture, Professor Keith Lilley draws on Prof Keith Lilley, Lecturer, QUB his own research, including recent field- work in Ireland and India, to reveal how Two hundred years ago one of the great these ‘mapping monuments’ tell a story challenges of the age was how to map of these past surveying connections and measure the . Surveyors were between Ireland and the wider world. key players in this endeavour, innovating Today, these ‘mapping monuments’ in their techniques to accurately survey represent significant cultural heritage the land ‘in the field’. What is more, of global significance, but is heritage the island of Ireland had an important that we risk losing.

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OUL STONES THE AND DEAD KINGS, OF MUSICAL A DIFFERENT LOOK AT INSTRUMENTS: FROM THE NAVAN COMPLEX BRONZE AGE HORNS TO MEDITERRANEAN Friday 4 October 2019 MUSICIANS Sean Barden, Curator, Friday 1 November 2019 County Museum Ulster Museum Dr Greer Ramsey, Although the large sites and monuments Curator of Archaeology, centring on have attracted National Museums NI lots of academic attention over the years there are also places and things Our knowledge of musical instruments in the area that are generally unknown stem from both the survival of actual but have always been respected by local objects, to representations in drawings people. This lecture takes a virtual stroll and images carved in stone. This through the lanes and fields around lecture explores some of the more well- Navan Fort looking for these small known prehistoric instruments, before places that have had a long association identifying the origin of an enigmatic to the monuments and myths but are set of pipes from Medieval Ireland. not well known to the wider public.

3 THE HISTORY OF The parish of Ballyclog, Donaghendry BALLYCLOG CHURCHES and Brackaville lye within the Diocese of Armagh in County Tyrone. Rectors of Ballyclog can be traced back to 1405, Friday 22 November 2019 and the parish system from 1172. Hall Library Ballyclog has had a long association with the Plantation Castlestewart family Revd Andrew Rawding, dating back to the early seventeenth Parochial Group of century. In 1908 the Parish of Ballyclog Brackaville, Donaghendry became grouped with Donaghendry, and Ballyclog and then both became grouped with Brackaville in 1983. In this lecture Revd Andrew Rawding will explore the history of these parishes.

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CARRICKFERGUS The old roof of the Great Tower, in the CASTLE – WORKS inner ward, was over 80 years old and in need of replacement. A £1million TO THE GREAT conservation project managed by Historic TOWER ROOF Environment Division, Department for Communities to replace that roof started Friday 6 December 2019 on site at the end of March 2019. The Ulster Museum existing roof was replaced with a new double pitched roof using Irish green oak Dr John O’Keefe, Assistant and built using medieval construction Director; Dermot MacRandal, techniques. This lecture will explore Senior Architect and how this new design was chosen, Dr Chiara Botturi, what the conservation project has been Archaeologist HED intended to achieve, how the materials were sourced and how the project Carrickfergus Castle has been in has been delivered, including the continuous occupation since 1178, archaeological exploration of previously- when John de Courcy set about building hidden features and cavities within the what has now become one of the best- walls and spiral staircase. known landmarks in Ulster and one of the best-preserved pieces of Norman castle architecture in Britain and Ireland.

5 This lecture brings to attention the multi-faceted architecture of the 1930s. There was no common architectural style and today the modern architecture of the time is described as Deco, Streamline Moderne, Modern, stripped Neo-Classicism, or Constructivism. This architecture was by no means supported by all and traditional expressions such as ‘Wrenaissance’ or Neo-Georgian prevailed alongside modern ones. Many architects, who embraced modern building methods and aesthetic, started their careers as traditionalists and designed buildings in a range of stylistic expressions. BELFAST architects such as Anthony Lucy, John ARCHITECTURE MacGeagh or the practice Young & OF THE 1930s Mackenzie would execute modern-style buildings as well as traditional ones. Philip Bell, John McBride Neill and RS Friday 24 January 2020 Wilshere on the other hand embraced PRONI the new architecture and created a range of modern houses, cinemas, Dr Tanja Poppelreuter, and schools that were designed to Lecturer, University of express the purpose and function of Salford Manchester the buildings in a modern manner.

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SALT OF THE EARTH This lecture will outline the 600-year old history of the Salters’ Company, a livery company in the City of London Friday 7 February 2020 and 9th in order of precedence of the PRONI 110 livery companies.

Timandra Nichols, It will explore ancient traditions, the Second Warden, royal charters, the halls that have been Salters’ Company occupied and what happened to them and finish with the relevance of the company today, its fellowship and philanthropy.

It will include reference to the relationship with the Manor of Sal in particular Magherafelt and Salterstown.

7 HERITAGE AT RISK project, its register, the statistics and data it generates, act as a ‘real time’ indicator, both for the condition of individual assets and the identification Friday 28 February 2020 of trends in the condition of the broad Linen Hall Library historic environment. It provides an important indication of how the condition Nikki McVeigh, Chief of the historic environment relates to Executive and Dr Connie geographical areas, ownership and type, Gerrow, Project Officer, UAHS allowing us to identify opportunities, pressures and threats. This lecture will The Heritage At Risk NI (HARNI) project, explore how trends identified by the is a partnership between Ulster HARNI register can help to direct Architectural Heritage (UAH) and the individuals, groups, funders, and central Department for Communities: Historic and local government to target re-use, Environment Division (DfC:HED). The regeneration and repair works towards primary aims of the project are to record heritage need. Also how HARNI serves to architecturally and historically important inform wider heritage policy and identify buildings that appear to be at risk, and issues affecting heritage, which need act as a catalyst for conservation and to be addressed and prioritised. re-use of those buildings. The HARNI

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GAELIC LANDSCAPE ORGANISATION: TOWNLANDS AND BALLYBETAGHS

THE WOMEN OF Friday 3 April 2020 HILLSBOROUGH Ulster Museum Thomas McErlean, Friday 20 March 2020 Archaeologist Ulster Museum Dr Christopher Warleigh-Lack, Our townlands are the single greatest Curator, Hillsborough Castle landscape legacy from the Late Medieval period in Ireland. The lecture explores their significance and what they reveal Senior Curator, Dr Christopher Warleigh- about Gaelic territorial landscape Lack, takes you on a journey through organisation, agriculture and society. the fascinating lives of some of the women who have lived and worked at Hillsborough Castle.

9 The lecture will look at the opportunities DEMESNE: and challenges faced by the following an acquisition it made UNDERSTANDING, in 2015 at Mount Stewart which unified PROTECTING AND the whole of the historic Demesne under RESTORING A its management. From mapping the COMPLEX HISTORIC development of the landscape through LANDSCAPE time, to understanding and repairing the condition of key historic features including its monuments, buildings and Friday 1 May 2020 garden features the talk will illustrate Ulster Museum how a comprehensive Conservation Malachy Conway, Management Plan was also prepared Archaeologist, through which to evaluate the significance National Trust NI of the demesne, catalogue its many features and helps the Trust understand what interventions are appropriate, both in the past and for planning into the future.

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WILLIAM BURN IT’S DREADFUL WORK REALLY, BUT THEY SEEM IN IRELAND AND TO RELISH IT: ESTABLISHING THE VICTORIAN CONSERVATION IN COUNTRY HOUSE NORTHERN IRELAND

Friday 5 June 2020 Friday 19 June 2020 Ulster Museum PRONI Terence Reeves-Smyth, Marcus Patton, Senior Archaeologist, HED Committee member, Hearth

William Burn (1789–1870) was one of the As late as 1960 there was no legislation most successful country house architects in Northern Ireland to protect historic buildings, and little recognition that there in Great Britain during much of the period were any historic buildings to protect from 1820 to 1860. Stylistically he was an in any case. Today we have over 8000 innovator, though his reputation was built listed buildings and conservation is on the revolutionary way his buildings involved in as much as a third of planning were planned and functioned. He visited applications. Marcus Patton looks at how Ireland frequently during 1838–55 architectural conservation in Ulster has emerged from the development pressures designing Muckross House, Bangor of the sixties and political unrest of the Castle, Dartry House and Castlewellan seventies and eighties to being a part Castle among other works. of mainstream planning as “sustainable development” becomes the norm.

11 The Historic Environment Record of Northern Ireland (HERoNI) has a substantial archive of information on historic monuments and buildings, maritime and industrial heritage sites, historic parks and gardens and 20th-century military structures.

HOW TO USE THE RECORD: More information about HERoNI and our records can be found at: www.communities-ni.gov.uk/topics/historic-environment/ historic-environment-record-northern-ireland-heroni

Our Map viewer also provides an easy way of exploring the heritage in your area: www.communities-ni.gov.uk/services/historic-environment-map-viewer

You are also welcome to access the Record in person, for free, by contacting us using the details below to arrange a visit.

VISIT: Klondyke Building Cromac Place Cromac Avenue, Belfast, BT7 2JA Telephone: 028 9056 9701 Email: [email protected] Klondyke Building A24 Ormeau Rd

OPENING TIMES: Ormeau Business Park Monday–Friday: 9:30am–1:00pm and 2:00pm–4:30pm (Appointment necessary)

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