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A WEALTH of history and information has been included in the new Discover St Flannan’s Guide, which was launched in the Killaloe Cathedral recently. Killaloe Ballina Historical Society secretary, Deborah Dudgeon applied for grant funding from the Heritage Council to cover some of the professional costs St Flannan’s Cathedral is incurring due to its current conservation and development. The Heritage Council provided some funding to enable the creation of the guide, with John Rice of Glance Promotions covering the cost of printing 1,000 copies. Dr Judith Hill, an architect and historian, who is involved in the conservation development plan for St Flannan’s joined forces with Ms Dudgeon to produce a new cathedral guide, which is now available to pick up free of charge at the cathedral. Ms Dudgeon, who did the layout and design, said they felt it would be nice to give visitors a guide brochure as it is now open from 10am to 7pm daily. “Judith had researched …
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