Category Archives: Events 2020

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Nov 26, 2020 07:30 PM Ireland
Topic: Pyramids in Britain and Ireland
David Winpenny (Guest Lecturer )

David Winpenny is an experienced lecturer.  He is the author of Up to a Point – In search of pyramids in Britain and Ireland
The only book about the pyramids in the British Isles – mausoleums, memorials, garden ornaments, pumps, wellheads, boat houses, beacons, sculptures, churches, offices, shops, sports halls, swimming pools, cinemas, navigation marks and general pyramidal oddities.

26th November is Thanksgiving Day and the Follies Trust feels it is an appropriate time to celebrate the completion of the Maudlins pyramids project! I hope you had an opportunity to watch Eoin Madigan’s excellent lecture on the work undertaken by Vernacular Conservation. If not it is on Youtube. This lecture by David Winpenny is free of charge to everyone who has kindly donated to the project already. But if you haven’t please can you help the Follies Trust raise the final funds for this amazing project? Every donation is much appreciated and enables us to continue to conserve precious parts of Ireland’s heritage which might otherwise be lost. If you would like to know about the 29 structures we have conserved since 2006 please see the projects section on this website. You must click on the link below  to complete your registration, so that you can access the lecture.   It will not be on Youtube – it is only available to watch at 7.30pm on Thursday 26 November.

Register in advance for this webinar:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_K4ZExooiRjau-T9wydN4Gw

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

For more information please see this flyer.

Work to conserve the pyramids in Maudlins burial ground, Nass is complete (apart from the doors) and we are delighted that Eoin Madigan, SPAB Fellow and co-Director of Vernacular Conservation, has agreed to give a lecture explaining the work undertaken on these structures by his company. This will be live streamed from 7pm on Thursday 15 October. Please see video by Rector Philip here:  https://youtu.be/RXWFnosQe-E 

For details and to reserve your place on the live stream of this lecture please click below:

Today we learned that the Heritage Council has given the Follies Trust a grant to have a blacksmith repair the iron doors on both pyramids. We are delighted! Work will be completed in late November.

The Rector and Select Vestry of St David’s Church, Naas, and the Follies Trust invite you to a lecture by Andrew Tierney on “Pyramids and follies in Central Leinster” in St David’s Church, Naas, on Thursday 30 January 2020 at 8pm. Reception 7.30pm. All welcome.

This lecture will raise awareness of the unique and important pair of pyramid mausolea in Maudlins burial ground and the need for their conservation. The Follies Trust in partnership with the Vestry, the RCB and Kildare County Council has already undertaken a survey of the structures.
No charge for the lecture but donations to the conservation of the mausolea would be much appreciated.

For more information please click here.