Evening Thoughts: Dark Skies, DeepTime Online Course

One mighty small bog in South County Carlow, Ireland, needing restoration, has inspired this new online course: Anchored with reference to community-led peatland restoration and the geo-ecological context of The Drummin Bog Project,  this new Haumea Ecoversity online 6-module course introduces an understanding. It aims to increase nature connection. Cathy Fitzgerald, a Drummin Bog Committee…

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National LAWPRO Communities Team visit Carlow’s Drummin Bog

by Chair of The Drummin Bog Project, Alan Price Members of the Drummin Bog Project Committee were honoured to recently host a tour of Drummin Bog for LAWPRO Community Water Officers from across Ireland. LAWPRO are the Local Authorities Water Programme that works on behalf of Ireland’s 31 Local Authorities to protect and restore good…

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Drummin Bog Project Part of First Carlow Climate Action Week

The Drummin Bog Committee recently hosted a guided walk and talk at Drummin Bog as part of County Carlow’s inaugural Carlow Climate Action Week 2024.

As the only remaining raised bog in Carlow and the Southeast of Ireland, restoring Drummin Bog is crucial to transforming this area into a carbon sink, while raising awareness of bog restoration’s importance in climate action.

NPWS and Minister visit Drummin Bog Project

We were delighted that on Friday 11 Oct 2024, Minister Malcolm Noonan invited a senior Regional National Park and Wildlife Service NPWS Advisor Ciara O’Mahony and new Local South East NPWS Ranger, Darragh Morrissey, who begins his role in January 2025 to visit and hear about the Drummin Bog Project, in South Carlow.

CWF Artists Webinar series: hear about the developing Gnáthóga Nádúrtha | Natural Habitats creative-led community engagement programme with Jules Michael, Monica de Bath and Kate Flood

The latest installment of the CWF (Community Wetland Forum) Creativity for the Wetlands artists webinar series takes place on Thursday 29 February at 7.30 pm. This webinar will feature Jules Michael (Drummin Bog Project), Monica de Bath (Rathangan Meithal) and Kate Flood (Girely Bog) who will speak about the developing Arts Council ‘Invitation to Collaborate’ Gnáthóga Nádúrtha | Natural Habitats creative-led community engagement programme led out by Carlow County Arts Office in collaboration with Kildare and Meath County Arts Services/Offices.

Gnáthóga Nádúrtha | Natural Habitats Drummin Bog Walk, Talks and Activities Afternoon: Sunday 12 Nov. All Welcome!

Please join us on Sunday 12th November for an afternoon of fun, creativity and nature-based activities celebrating our nearby peatlands.  Make a wish on muslin for the Gangers Hut. Weave a remnant on a weaver’s frame. Learn about plant lore, making teas from wild plants, and old dairy ways of butter-making. Create your own bog colours postcard, draw bog plants, and hear short talks from the artists involved – the…

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Tales and Tastes from the Bog

Tales and Tastes from the Bog: as part of the 3 county Gnáthóga Nadúrtha Natural Habitats programme supported by Carlow, Kildare and Meath Arts Offices, please join us this Sunday 1st Oct 2-5pm in the Old Schoolhouse, Rathangan Co. Kildare for an afternoon of sharing bog stories, plant lore, the makings of an 1812 Bog Map, and past times, as we weave connections between us and our nearby peatlands.

Irish Heritage Week 2023: Gathering Stories of Drummin Bog, Carlow

For Irish Heritage Week 20233 – Join us to celebrate some of the stories and oral history of Carlow’s Drummin Bog, 11 am Sat. 12 Aug. at Drummond Hall!! with founding member and Director of the Irish Oral History Association Adrian Roche of the TheHistoryTrail.ie

Creatively connecting care for wetlands: the wonderful Ardee Bog Cafe

Creative Drummin Bog Committee members Jules Michael and Cathy Fitzgerald were recently invited by the Friends of Ardee Bog to attend an imaginative, creative 3-day Bog Cafe in Ardee Co. Louth. They received a warm welcome and the event strengthened connections between many groups and individuals dedicated to creatively contributing to wetland restoration across Ireland….

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Drummin Bog Project joins the Friends of Ardee BOG CAFE

We are delighted to share that the Drummin Bog Project has been invited to participate in The BOG CAFE – a celebration of Ardee Bog and our precious Irish peatlands. An information stand about the Drummin Bog Project will be displayed on Saturday, September 24th – please do come and say hello. BOG CAFE: SCHEDULE…

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Creative Drummin news: Arts Council to Collaborate ‘Art in the Landscape’ Offaly and Mayo seminar

As Creative Drummin – Druimín Cruthaitheach, led by the Carlow Arts Office, and involving council staff, creative practitioners Jules Michael, Carole Nelson, cultural researchers and involving training from Cathy Fitzgerald’s Haumea Ecoversity – begins work on a new creative learning and community ecosocial engagement initiative funded by the Arts Council of Ireland Invitation to Collaboration…

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Our Barn Owl nesting box has been installed on Drummin Bog!

Our Barn Owl nesting box has been installed on Drummin Bog! Read more about BirdWatch Ireland and community efforts to help this endangered red-listed bird species in South County Carlow as part of Creative Drummin – Druimín Cruthaitheach supported by Creative Ireland & Carlow Arts Office

Make a spoon from Drummin Bog with woodwright Eoin Donnelly

We are thrilled and not surprised that the traditional wood spoon-making workshop with master woodwright Eoin Donnelly is booked out ahead of the events on Sat 16 Oct., 2021 at Drummond Hall, to celebrate the cultural and restoration activities for Drummin Bog – the last remaining area of raised bog in the SE of Ireland….

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VOTE for Drummin Bog: A LEADER funded project

Help raise the profile of the smallest raised #bog in the South East of Ireland – VOTE FOR THE DRUMMIN BOG VIDEO in the NATIONAL RURAL NETWORK competition that is Celebrating the Impact of #LEADER on Rural Communities in Ireland.