Conservation training day

Castletown Heritage Society intends to develop and promote the Castlehill Heritage Centre as an educational resource for visitors, local students and school children and the local community. Information will be provided to assist in the understanding of the history, heritage, biodiversity and physical surroundings of Castletown and the parish of Olrig.

From its very beginnings the Society has run many successful workshop and training days, covering such topics as drystone dyking and artefact preservation, and have staged themed exhibitions, talks and village walks. During 2007 we ran a very successful series of workshops and training days supported by the Highland 2007 Community Programme.

We have created a sustainable venue within the Castlehill Heritage Centre for the development and delivery of events and training workshops featuring local and vernacular skills such as Caithness Chair making, wood chip carving, dry stone walling, peat cutting, lime stone pointing and sea shore based crafts such as drift wood sculpture, the objective being to preserve and maintain the unique heritage of the Castletown community within both local Caithness and broader Highland contexts.

Castletown Heritage will continue to showcase, stimulate and sustain interest and participation in a range of craft and vernacular skills through a programme of interpretive and collaborative events delivered in the Castlehill Heritage Centre.

Castlehill Heritage Centre is currently closed to visitors whilst the summer exhibition is being prepared. RE-OPENS MAY 08

Stone upon Stone - By popular request - another round of our hands-on Dry-stone dyking course - book early to avoid disappointment.

Over the course of the two days, master craftsman Dave Goulder from Rosehall, Lairg, will provide practical coaching in the basic skills before leading on to more advanced techniques.