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EXHIBITION: Buildings of Mayo Exhibition
Oct
12
to 13 Oct
Exhibition

EXHIBITION: Buildings of Mayo Exhibition

  • Swinford Cultural Centre (map)
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Swinford Cultural Centre housed in the nineteenth-century former Swinford Railway Goods Store will host the Buildings of Mayo Photographic Exhibition which is curated and presented as a joint venture between the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in association with Mayo County Council. This touring photographic exhibition promotes the publication of the Mayo survey of the built heritage of the county. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) is the largest ever survey of post-1700 architectural heritage of County Mayo, some highlights of which are presented in this building as it demonstrates good practice in the adaptive re-use of a historic building. 

Exhibition continues until 25 October 2019.

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EXHIBITION: Benchmark Prelude Exhibition
Oct
12
3:00 pm15:00
Exhibition

EXHIBITION: Benchmark Prelude Exhibition

  • The Linenhall Arts Centre, Linenhall Street, Castlebar, Co. Mayo (map)
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BENCHMARK is a multifaceted arts and heritage project produced by the Linenhall Arts Centre in which award-winning writer Mike McCormack is working with ten Mayo-based writers and ten visual artists from Engage Art Studios to explore aspects of bench marks and surveying in the context of local heritage.

A bench mark is a simple and elegant crows-foot-shaped mark which is carved into stone walls in our built environment all around the country. They were created during the 1800s to mark the height above sea level at particular locations and were used by ordnance surveyors to map the terrain.

The Linenhall Arts Centre is a fine example of successful adaptive re-use and the project theme resonates with the Linenhall Arts Centre insofar as the 18th century façade of the Linenhall building is home to a beautiful surveying bench mark. Many more of these bench marks survive in Castlebar and in towns all around Mayo, carved into stones on buildings, bridges and other structures of note, while others have disappeared as towns have developed. 

The BENCHMARK PRELUDE exhibition will present details on a number of historic structures which retain bench marks in Castlebar.

Funding from Creative Ireland Mayo for this project is gratefully acknowledged.

Exhibition Continues Until 25th October 2019.

Open Daily 11am-5pm.

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