Waterford County Museum

News on upcoming events, exhibitions, latest acquisitions, lectures and opinion pieces from Waterford County Museum, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland.

Object of the Week - Watercolour Painting of the Pier near Faithlegg House, County Waterford by Maud Power c. 1920s

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Maud Power of Faithlegg House was an amateur artist who wrote and illustrated a book titled 'Wayside India' published in 1907. ...

Annual Museum Fundraising Book Sale 2018

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A massive thank you to all our volunteers who helped us to move thousands of books for our annual book sale, especially our younger voluntee...

Annual Museum Fundraising Book Sale 2018

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Our annual book sale will take place next week from Thursday the  27 th  to Saturday the 29 th  of September from 9am - 7pm each day. ...

Talk on the Hermitage, Abbeyside

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A packed house for museum curator William Fraher’s talk on Wednesday the 19 th of September 2018 about the Hermitage in Abbeyside was expe...

Talk to Mark the Sinking of RMS Leinster

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On the 10 th of October 1918 the RMS Leinster was torpedoed and over 500 people were drowned.   Amongst those drowned were a number of Wate...

Object of the Week - Ink and Watercolour Drawing of a Funeral Monument at St Carthage's Cathedral Lismore c. 1799

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This funeral monument was erected in the cathedral with some minor alterations.  It commemorates Julia Chearnley (nee Browne) the secon...

Object of the Week - Hand Coloured Map of the Road from Carrick to Kilmacthomas and Dungarvan to Cappoquin, taken from Taylor & Skinner's Maps of the Roads of Ireland 1777

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Marked on the map are the following country houses - Grey Rock (Carriglea), Coughlan; Mount Odell, Odell; Rockville, Healy; Bettyvil...
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