That Beats Banagher Festival 2023

26th & 27th July 2025

Festival

Heritage Walk -Forges, Forgeries, Fakes and Fortifications in Banagher, 1620s- 2020s.

St Pauls Church Banagher, Ireland

As part of the 12th That Beats Banagher Festival, there will be a Heritage Walk on Sunday morning of the 27th of July  The theme of the walk will be Forges, Forgeries, Fakes and Fortifications in Banagher, 1620s- 2020s. The walk will look at pieces of ironwork along the Main Street from Saint Paul's Church to the Martello Tower. These will include railings, gates, commemorative plaques, a crane, remains of ironwork on Banagher Bridge, an iron memorial cross, iron grave surrounds, and a mortsafe, etc., etc. Former locations of forges along the street will be visited, and local blacksmiths remembered and their work celebrated.

Free
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