A Pevsner Voice: North Connacht – Leitrim, Roscommon and Sligo (North Connacht Architecture)

Friday 28th March 2025 at  8pm.

Location: Sligo Educational Centre, ATU, Ballinode, F91 WFW9

‘The Buildings of Ireland’ is a series of authoritative guides to Irish architecture organised on a regional basis, known as Pevsner Guides. The series is designed to provide an authoritative and comprehensive guide to Ireland’s architectural heritage. Every type of building, architectural style and historical period is included, as are all towns, villages, monuments and manmade landscapes.

This project represents year 2 of a 3 year research, field work and data gathering phase for a volume devoted to the counties of Leitrim, Roscommon and Sligo, with a working title of ‘North Connacht’. The ‘North Connacht’ Volume of the ‘Buildings of Ireland’ series will not be available until at least 2026, as an editing phase must follow this research phase.

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of architectural guides of Britain.

Lecturer

Una Sugrue FRIAI is an architectural researcher working on the Leitrim, Roscommon and Sligo volume of the Buildings of Ireland series.

After graduating she worked as a  post-graduate research student for a year at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di
Venezia. She returned to Ireland and worked as an architect and a conservation architect in the private and public sectors.  From 2011-2021 she was responsible for the care of 11 protected structures on the Grangegorman campus in Dublin. She has also studied building conservation and in 1994-95 completed an MA in Building  Conservation Studies at the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies (IoAAS),
University of York, England.