Huge congratulations all Kerry primary schools who were shortlisted for our Heritage Hunters Award 2024, especially this year’s winners: Curranes National School. Their comprehensive local heritage project on ‘The Castle of the Island’ received great praise from the adjudicators. Blennerville NS’s project ‘Our Hero Tom Crean’ was awarded a fabulous second place, while Spa NS scooped up third place with their architectural heritage project on ‘Lassinagh House’.

Four Kerry schools were highly commended by adjudicators Isabel Bennett (Archaeologist & council member of the Kerry Archaeological & Historical Society), Maria Walsh (Heritage in Schools Programme Manager & Child Protection Officer at the Heritage Council of Ireland) and Terry O’Sullivan (Director of the Education Support Centre Tralee): St Teresa’s NS, Kilflynn (‘Tobar Flainn Holy Well’), whose project is currently on public display at Kerry County Museum; St John’s Parochial School Tralee (‘St John’s church & graveyard’); Scoil Mhuire Killorglin (‘O’Sullivan’s bakery’) and Castledrum NS (‘Our local history’).

Watch our Heritage Hunters Award 2024 video showcasing all seven local heritage projects (7mins):

Heritage Hunters is an award-winning local heritage competition open to all Kerry primary schools. Kerry County Museum has teamed up with Radio Kerry, the Kerry Archaeological & Historical Society, Kerry County Council, the Education Centre Tralee and the Heritage in Schools Programme by the Heritage Council of Ireland for this exciting opportunity to showcase all the amazing heritage projects that are underway in primary schools across Kerry.

If you are a teacher and would like to participate in Heritage Hunters 2025, please send an email to education@kerrymuseum.ie. An open call for participation will be issued in September 2024 via the Education Support Centre Tralee.

You can listen to some of our Heritage Hunter podcasts by Radio Kerry via by clicking on this link https://www.radiokerry.ie/podcasts/heritage-hunters-podcast/ or by scanning the QR code below:

Radio Kerry Heritage Hunters podcasts with Kerry primary schools