Programme of Events for Summer 2025
Members only
Excursion to Farmleigh House & Gardens, Phoenix Park
Meeting point: House Tour Ticket Office
Parking : Visitors Carpark, Farmleigh (use satnav coordinates: 53.3661, -6.3516)
Date & Time: Saturday 26 July 2025 at 11.15 a.m.
Admission: €6 House Tour
News and Events
Evening Stroll
Our annual 'evening stroll' took place on Wednesday 27 July. This year the destination was...
Donal McDonnell – Honorary Secretary WWHS (Deceased)
We in the West Wicklow Historical Society are deeply saddened by the death of our friend Donal...
Burning the Big House
A group of members from the West Wicklow Historical Society made their first foray of the Summer...
Oliver Whelan on Landholding in Hacketstown
On Tuesday 3 May 2022 , the society hosted a very interesting and informative lecture by Oliver...
Lecture by Joan Kavanagh – Glendalough
WEST WICKLOW HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S FIRST LECTURE OF 2022 Tues. 12 April @ 8pm Lalor Centre (near...
Declan Keenan | Receives History Prize
On Saturday 9 April the Standing Council of Irish Chiefs and Chieftains / Clans of Ireland Prize...