Townlands Project

Townlands 3

TOWNLANDS  3

Publications
This final phase of the project to be developed during 2011 will be the fruit of  those which have preceded it, a phase of reflection and of a creative response to its considerations. It will involve the following activities:

• Development of a Field Name Research Guide  for Johnswell Development Committee so that this work can be carried on by others in the future. This guide might also serve as a template for other local history groups within the county and even further afield. In this way there might develop a consistency of archival practice across the research groups. This initiative is being supported by the Kilkenny Leader Partnership

• Publication of the overall project history along with an introductory essay reflecting on the process. This publication to include research material gathered (fieldnames and folklore), a selection of visual imagery, and of the papers presented by writers, poets and scholars in Phase 2

Further outgrowths may take the form of an ongoing revival of the St Johns Eve Pattern as an annual event or small festival with a focus on collaborative responses to landscape from both artists and scholars.