Irish Countrywomen’s Association<\/a> (ICA) guild in the village of Stratford-on-Slaney in County Wicklow have spent six months compiling a history of the area. Their efforts have been rewarded with an All Ireland win in a local history arts competition sponsored by the ICA.<\/p>\nThe project involved the preparation of a complete history of the village, founded in 1790, and the preservation of one place of historic interest.<\/p>\n
For this, the guild chose Mackey’s Well, the water source for the local Fever Hospital in the 18th century.<\/p>\n
A great deal of work and research went into compiling a comprehensive booklet, with photographs, covering the history, folklore, flora and fauna of the area. It is thought that the work will now be published as a local history booklet.<\/p>\n
An RT\u00c9 News report broadcast on 10 March 1976. The reporter is Dermot Mullane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National arts award for the Stratford-on-Slaney Irish Countrywomen’s Association guild local history project. Members of the Irish Countrywomen’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[155303,61,60,155304,80],"class_list":["post-338511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ica","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-countrywomens-association","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}