Ardglass Bathing House

On 21 August the Follies Trust held a Celebration in Ardglass to mark the conservation of the bathing house. It was a lovely sunny day and there was an icecream van dispensing icecream cones to guests which included Gillian Fitzpatrick, Deputy Chairperson of Newry, Mourne and Down District Council, Councillors, Friends of the Follies Trust and members of the public. Funding for the project was obtained from the Landfill Communities Tax, administered by Ulster Wildlife, and the Ardglass Vikings.

At the conclusion of the speeches a Follies Trustee emerged from the bathing house in her swimming costume and went for a dip in the sea!

Our celebration was then featured in the Down News local online paper. View the article complete with photos of the day here.

Also Chairman of the Follies Trust, Primrose Wilson, was interviewed about the project on the BBC Radio Uster program Your Place or Mine. The interview can be heard below starting at 10 minutes 50 seconds: