Drummin Bog Project

Wetland Films at Carlow VISUAL Thurs 19 February – All Welcome!

Martin Lyttle of the Drummin Bog Project Committee has been co-organising this film night, within his role for the Co Carlow Environmental Network (CCEN). ‘Our 5th and final film of this environmental film series is taking place on Thursday, 19th of February in the Visual Carlow at 7pm. We will be showing a number of short…

Drummin Bog Volunteer Valentine’s Morning – Sun. 15 February 2025 -invasive species removal

Drummin Bog Volunteer Morning – Sun. 26 Oct 2025 -invasive species removal

A Flavour of Drummin Bog Volunteer Mornings: invasive species removal, with cheese :)

Drummin Bog Volunteer Morning – Sun. 26 Oct 2025 -invasive species removal and Carlow Cheese-tasting with Cormac Larkin, Hydrogeology with James Lalor

Drummin Bog Volunteer Morning – Sun. 18 January 2025 -invasive species removal

Drummin Bog Volunteer Morning – Sun. 26 Oct 2025 -invasive species removal

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…

Drummin Bog welcomes Minister Chris O’Sullivan and County Carlow Council Staff

Committee members were pleased to share the story of the Drummin Bog Project in Soiuth County Carlow with Minister Chris O’Sullivan, a keen birder. We acknowledge all of the support from the different departments of Carlow County Council and regional NPWS staff who also visited.

Carlow’s Drummin Bog represented in Mary Robinson’s ‘Fite Fuaite’ Quilt for the UN COP30 Climate Meeting in Brazil

Carlow’s Drummin Bog Project was represented fpr Mary Robinson’s ‘Fite Fuaite’ Quilt for the UN COP30 Climate Meeting in Brazil. Voluntary Drummin Bog Committee member Brigid O’Regan, a former science lecturer, and a member of the Carlow Borris Lace group created the beautiful Drummin Bog Quilt Square for Mary Robinson’s Quilt.

Voices from Carlow: Drummin Bog in the New Eco Chats Podcast Series

Voices from Carlow – Drummin Bog in the New Eco Chats Podcast Series episode 1 2025 — featuring Jules Michael, artist with the Drummin Bog Project.

Drummin Bog Volunteer Morning – Sun. 26 Oct 2025 -invasive species removal

Irish Heritage Week 2025: Flight, Water, Home: The Birds of Drummin Bog with Mick Wright

Irish National Heritage Week 2025: Flight, Water, Home: The Birds of Drummin Bog with Mick Wright, at Drummin Bog, Co. Carlow with LAWPRO

Irish Heritage Week 2025: Flight, Water, Home: The Birds of Drummin Bog

Irish Heritage Week 2025: Flight, Water, Home: The Birds of Drummin Bog at Drummin Bog, Co. Carlow

Drummin Bog Volunteer Morning – Sun. 27 April -invasive species removal

Sunday 27th April 2025 Join us for a full, informative work party session!! Would you like to celebrate this beautiful Spring by coming along to our Drummin Bog Volunteer Morning!! All most welcome. Even to come for an hour to support the little bog would be much appreciated. We can guarantee that some lopping and…

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…

The Bog Rosemary Song for Drummin Bog with St Brendan’s National School

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.

Carlow Climate Action Week 2024: Visit Drummin Bog, Sat. 19 Oct at 2pm – All Welcome!

Carlow Climate Action Week 2024: Visit Drummin Bog on Sat. 19 Oct at 2pm – All Welcome!

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.

Irish Heritage Week 2024: Let’s Learn Together – The Big Pond Dip at Drummin Bog, Carlow

Irish Heritage Week 2024: Let’s Learn Together – The Big Pond Dip at Drummin Bog, Co. Carlow

Irish Heritage Week 2024: Let’s Learn Together – The Big Pond Dip at Drummin Bog, Carlow

Irish Heritage Week 2024: Let’s Learn Together – The Big Pond Dip at Drummin Bog, Co. Carlow

Drummin Bog Volunteer Morning – Sun. 26 May -to remove invasive species for National Biodiversity Week 2024

Sunday 26th May 2024 Join us for a full, informative work party session!! The Drummin Bog Project has a program to remove invasive species from Drummin Bog We need volunteers to help us cut rhododendrons, tackle bracken Join us to enjoy tea and biccies and hear more about the Drummin Bog Project!! Spend some time on…

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.

Summary of Autumn 2023 Creative-led, Nature-inspired activities celebrating our peatlands – Gnáthóga Nádúrtha | Natural Habitats programme

As part of the Gnáthóga Nádúrtha programme, a series of events in Autumn 2023 marked the end of the first phase with a rotating community engagement event at each of the three sites. ‘Each artist unearthed a physical expression of their work on the project and their local peatland – a Butter Firkin, a Bog…

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…

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

“Finding Dragons” Are there lizards on Drummin Bog??!!

“Finding Dragons” Are there lizards on Drummin Bog in South Carlow??!! Please join us for a Citizen Science Survey, 10 am Saturday 22nd July 2023 with herpetologist Rob Gandola.

Last minute €10 gift idea, sponsor a 3x3m patch of Carlow’s Drummin bog for 2023

We need to urgently protect and restore 30% of Earth’s Biodiversity by 2030 Help us safeguard and restore Carlow’s Drummin Bog – the last remaining raised bog in the South East of Ireland. To support the Drummin Bog Project in 2023, the Drummin Bog Project committee are inviting those who may not have the time…

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….

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…

Drummin Bog in Carlow is how old?!!?! Join celebrations on Drummin Bog – for National Heritage Week

PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND OUR CONTROL, THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Join us Sunday 14th August on Drummin Bog, South Carlow to celebrate the carbon date and wonderful age of Drummin Bog Sunday 14th August 2022 ALL WELCOME We’ll be hosting: • Peat core sampling demo • Talk with Mick…

‘Slow time on the Bog’: painter Mairead Holohan celebrates Carlow’s Drummin Bog

On International Bog Day, the Drummin Bog Project is delighted to share that a 2022 ArtLinks bursary is enabling south Carlow-based painter Mairead Holohan research and create new work in response to Drummin Bog and the local area. #Ireland #wetlands #beauty #creativity #art #internationalbogday #iucnpeat

Drummin Bog Project NPWS Peatlands Community Engagement Award work benefits nearby secondary schools

This is the second of two posts about how the 2021 NPWS Community Engagement Scheme Award extended activities to fulfil the aims of the Drummin Bog Project Last year, despite the challenges of the pandemic, Drummin Bog Project committee members, past Chair Martin Lyttle (a former geotechnical engineer) and Creative Drummin Engagement Artist, Jules Michael,…

NPWS Peatlands Community Engagement Award work supports a major step toward restoring Drummin Bog

This is the first of two posts about how the 2021 NPWS Community Engagement Scheme Award extended activities to fulfil the aims of the Drummin Bog Project Last year, despite the challenges of the pandemic, Drummin Bog Project committee members, past Chair Martin Lyttle (a former geotechnical engineer) and Creative Drummin Engagement Artist, Jules Michael,…

Drummin Bog Project donates trees to nearby national schools for National Tree Week 2022

The slip of paper which we sent out with each tree for planting and care. We are still getting great feedback about our initiative for National Tree week in March 2022. We were thrilled to deliver over 200 birch and oak trees to the three national schools of Scoil Moling (Glynn), St. Michael’s (Newtown) and…

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…

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

News of Carlow-led Gnáthóga Nádúrtha: (Natural Habitats) 3-county arts initiative

The Drummin Bog Project committee and Creative Drummin – Druimín Cruthaitheach would like to congratulate the Carlow Arts Office and Community Development Staff on the exciting news that €75, 000 is to be invested in a new creative initiative – Gnáthóga Nádúrtha: (Natural Habitats), as part of the 2022 Invitation to Collaboration Award from the…

Creative Ireland 2-day event draws enthusiastic crowds & Minister for Carlow Bog Banner Project

PLEASE NOTE: Access to Drummin Bog is limited due to the sensitive nature of the habitat and its status as a wildlife reserve. Great precaution must be taken in visiting the bog due to its unmarked deep drains, and other hazards. It is therefore recommended people do not walk on the bog alone. Children must…

The Drummin Bog: Banner Project (Phase 1) Schedule Announced- ALL WELCOME!

The Drummin Bog: Banner Project (Phase 1) Schedule Announced- ALL WELCOME to Drummond Hall, Drummond, Co. Carlow 15-16 Oct!

A talk and walk about the ecological botanical wonders of Carlow’s Drummin bog

As part of the upcoming Creative Drummin Bog programme this weekend, we are delighted that Dr Fiona MacGowan will be leading a walk on Drummin bog on Sat 16 Oct at 3pm (see the event schedule below) Fiona conducted the first 2020 ecological botanical survey of Drummin bog, the report you can read and download…

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….

Get the Drummin Bog book for World Wetland Day and UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration

There is great excitement in the South Carlow national schools of St. Brendan’s, Drummond, Scoil Moling, Glynn and St. Michael’s, Newtown this week as the “An Fraughan” eBook is launched. The eBook commemorates the ecosocial art project also called “An Fraughan” that ran in the three schools in 2019. Funded by Creative Ireland with the…

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.