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De Búrca Stonework Traditional stonework, hot lime mortars, upland paths and conservation

We’ve just finished this summer’s pathwork project on 🐂The Táin Way ✅⛰️The Slieve Foye Loop✅Well done to Louth Local Dev...
21/08/2026

We’ve just finished this summer’s pathwork project on

🐂The Táin Way ✅
⛰️The Slieve Foye Loop✅

Well done to Louth Local Development for securing the funding for this important work to halt erosion and mitigate against


21/08/2026

We’re finished this year’s path projects on the

✅Táin Way 🐂

✅Slieve Foye Loop ⛰️

On Carlingford Mountain/ Slieve Foye.

Many thanks to for securing the funding for this much-needed work, halting erosion and preserving upland soils and and mitigating change.



And special thanks to our designated Callow Youth, for the help.

15/08/2026

BUILDING UP AGAINST BEDROCK
It can be tricky to build a path alongside sloping bedrock - to get your stones to ‘bite’ into it and not slide away down the hill. We’ve jammed a great 1m long bit of granite in at the bottom, and used that to build our further steps off.
🍀 ♻️

08/08/2026

We’re demonstrating how to build a traditional dry stone wall again this year - come and have a look at the Traditional Skills day at Cultra. There are a range of other crafts on display also!

13/07/2026

What lovely medieval Vaulting! (And a very good breakfast) in the old crypt of the Vicars Choral at Chichester. This was a storeroom for the accommodation of the Vicars who would sing masses at the Cathedral in the Middle Ages. The heavy, squat columns are Norman, from the late 12th century, while the slightly pointed arches signify the transition to early Gothic work.

24/06/2026

More limewash - hot mixed and applied straight away to the studio walls. It can go on concrete block as readily as stone or plaster.

🏛️Very honoured to be featured by Heritage Crafts, this is a big milestone for my building conservation work - and West ...
10/06/2026

🏛️Very honoured to be featured by Heritage Crafts, this is a big milestone for my building conservation work - and West Dean College is an amazing learning environment.
Second module, in July -
🛖🛖Earthen Mortars! 🛖🛖

This spring for the Mourne Heritage Trust Mournelive, we installed: ✅ 45 Timber dams✅ 124 Stone dams✅ 40m Reprofiling wi...
06/06/2026

This spring for the Mourne Heritage Trust Mournelive, we installed:

✅ 45 Timber dams

✅ 124 Stone dams

✅ 40m Reprofiling with geo textile

✅ 10 Square metres stone path repaired

✅ One new cross drain with associated aggregate surfacing

✅250 square metres of coconut coir geotextile

To combat erosion from footfall, and
To sequester carbon being lost from the heavily eroding, peaty soils of Slieve Binnian

Funded by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency

04/06/2026

BACK TO SCHOOL
Amazing how much you pay attention when you’ve put yourself in the classroom voluntarily. 96 pages of notes and some homework I’ve set myself!
Learned so much, mostly about bats. Made it back, quite late in the end.

WEST DEAN COLLEGE Building Conservation Masterclass, Managing Wildlife in the Historic Environment. The school itself is...
03/06/2026

WEST DEAN COLLEGE Building Conservation Masterclass, Managing Wildlife in the Historic Environment. The school itself is a feast for the eyes, with knapped flint in all sorts of shapes and sizes, cut stone and lots of art. The indoor ‘Ruinette’ where building and plastering are demonstrated is a great resource. We also made a trip to The Devil’s Jumps barrows, with species-rich chalk grassland on them. Generously funded by . I’ve also quite enjoyed being indoors for a few days, letting on I’m a scholar. 🔨🔨🔨🖋️

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