The Beaubec Project is delighted to announce the creation of a 3D model of the monk’s residence by the Discovery Programme. Click on the link below to see for yourselves. This model shows the residence after the extensive conservation work carried out in 2021 as part of the Community Monuments Fund. Many thanks to the …
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Art Workshop Places available!
From Wednesday the 10th to Sunday the 14th of August, last year’s artist in residence John Sunderland will be running a five day art workshop that will explore the archaeology and landscape of Beaubec on site and we have some places available. The workshop is for young adults who have to be over 16 to 25 ish. It will …
It’s a sign
Actually, it is four signs. Thanks to the generous support from the Community Monuments Fund administered through the National Monuments Service and Meath County Council the Beaubec project was able to erect interpretive panels explaining the Pearson house, the service tower, the ‘great barn of Beaubec’ and the grange residence. Excavation co-directors would like to …
The French Connection
The Beaubec team have just returned from a hugely successful trip to Normandy to visit Beaubec’s motherhouse in Beaubec-la-Rosière and to re-connect with the community there. Eight hundred years ago a group of Cistercian monks left Beaubec Abbey in Normandy to establish a new monastic community in the Boyne Valley. Their Irish site been conserved …
Touching Time Project Wins Amazon Grant!
The Beaubec Project has been awarded a grant of €5,000 from Amazon Web Services (AWS) with support from ChangeX, to host a workshop in art and archaeology. The grant was achieved through the tireless efforts of Grace McCullen who has been voluntary PR officer since the commencement of our work at Beaubec. ‘Touching Time’ is …
Dendro dates the end of days
The end of days for the Cistercian grange of Beaubec was due to the devastation caused by the Great Plague of 1348–49. The discovery of the fuming pot made from mid fourteenth-century Drogheda ware and late-medieval ridge tiles was, up to now, the strongest evidence we had for this catastrophe. Now, thanks to the science …
Look what we got for Christmas!
Thanks to a generous grant made available by the Community Monuments Fund administered by Meath County Council and made possible by a generous endowment from the National Monuments Service, the service tower at Beaubec has been repaired and made safe for future generations (scroll down to see earlier postings about the work which took place). …
We present the Beaubec story
It was great news when Beaubec received Community Monuments Funding (Stream 3) this year for the enhancement and presentation of its archaeological monuments. This grant is being used for new interpretative signage on the site. Four new panels will introduce visitors to Beaubec Grange, the monks residence, the Great Barn and the Pearson mansion. The …
Community Monuments Fund team comes to Beaubec
We were delighted to welcome the National Monuments Service CMF team to Beaubec to show them the great progress that has been made on repairs to the medieval building thanks to their state funding. Thanks also to Meath County Council for putting the application forward. We also wanted to introduce our wonderful team. We showed …
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Beaubec’s (CMF) Facelift
Huge changes have taken place at Beamore since we finished the excavation in August. The Community Monument Fund stepped in with state funding to repair the medieval remains of Beaubec, associated with the Cistercian monks of De Bello Becco in Normandy, France. The works began in early September with Des Rainey conservation experts, under the …
Beaubec Excavations 