Architecture festival returns to Mayo for another year

The 2025 edition of the Architecture at the Edge festival will run from this Friday, September 26, to Sunday, October 12, across Mayo and Galway. This year’s festival will include the presentation of Rún – Ireland’s (In)visible Buildings Project, an ongoing research project mapping the condition and extent of former residential institutional sites across the island of Ireland.

Highlights of this year’s festival in Mayo include ‘Solid Foundations’ at The Ballinglen Museum of Art, where participants will learn about the beginning of The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, visit The Ballinglen Museum of Art, and learn about the plans for The Old School in Ballycastle. 

HeritACT Ballina, an EU-funded project focusing on cultural heritage as a catalyst for sustainable development, will present several events,  including a walk and talk on the histories associated with some of the HeritACT sites, departing from the HeritHUB at Ballina Library. Later that day, Martin Leonard and Yvonne Corcoran Loftus will talk through The Jackie Clarke Collection and give the history of the building and the collection.

Pictured: Enniscoe House

Curator Kathryn Connolly will discuss the care of the collection during the restoration at Westport House. Enniscoe House will also be open for a tour. Additionally, a tour of Patita Bourke Nicholson’s paintings from the exhibition Paintings of Memory and Imagination will be available to view on October 11.

For full details on these events and to view the full programme, visit: https://www.architectureattheedge.com/

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