CREATIVE DRUMMIN – DRUIMÍN CHRUTHAITHEACH

Jules Michael preparing the inaugural Creative Drummin Hidden Reveal Exhibition – VISUAL Carlow, December 2017

CREATIVE DRUMMIN

DRUIMÍN CHRUTHAITHEACH

Creative Drummin launched on 2 December 2017, with an inaugural participatory postcard and online Hidden Reveal exhibition fundraiser event to celebrate Drummin bog and Irish wetlands at VISUAL Carlow to support and promote awareness of the newly formed Drummin Bog Project. The Hidden Reveal event was organised by Jules Michael, with Cathy Fitzgerald and the active and generous support of the Drummin Bog Project Committee.

In the following four years, Carlow-based community artist and painter Jules Michael and ecological artist and educator Dr Cathy Fitzgerald teamed together, with the active support of the Drummin Bog Project Committee, to develop and apply for funding to create, design and deliver a long-term, embedded-in-place, creative ecosocial programme: Creative Drummin.

Creative Drummin is a platform for a range of art practices, from creative practitioners’ responses to Drummin Bog itself to collaborative practices, cumulatively providing a meaningful and inclusive programme. This has engaged nearby residents of Drummond and St Mullins in South Carlow, and the communities across Carlow, in the unique and important natural and cultural heritage of Drummin Bog. Such creative and artist-led inter-connecting activities have much social power to inspire understanding that thriving, healthy places are essential for personal, collective and planetary wellbeing.

As Drummin Bog is the last remaining raised bog in the South East of Ireland, it has real and symbolic importance and still has further potential to foster deep community engagement to care for its place whilst addressing local, national and global efforts urgently needed for ecosocial education and ecosystem restoration. Globally, an increasing focus on ecosystem restoration is a priority for this UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030 as a crucial means to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Creativity as never before can empower, inspire and guide us in imaginative, inclusive ways so we meaningfully think and act for liveable futures and cultural renewal.

Although small, the Creative Drummin Programme is advancing two important strands:

1) It presents a template of how innovative, inclusive creative-led ecosocial programming can connect and engage communities to care for place. This further deepens understanding of how thriving environments are fundamental for personal, collective, planetary and intergenerational wellbeing.

2) It also advances conceptions of how collective co-creative participatory practices that evolve over the long term depend on skilled ecosocially-fluent creative workers. These are durational, embedded-in-place ecological “ecosocial art practices” (Fitzgerald, 2018, summary here) that have been developing on the margins of contemporary art practice since the early 1970s.

Carefully leading such multi-faceted constellations of creative participatory activity (that may comprise aesthetic-scientific-local heritage aspects) within community cultivates everyone’s innate creativity so no one is left behind. These ecosocial art practices in community celebrate often inspiring, yet hard-to-predict outcomes that are not only about creating new artworks per se but which have immense social power to creatively change the conversation– across a community– for a better, fairer and more life-sustaining world.

Community ecosocial art practices therefore arguably present a strong case for additional, newer models of artistic funding such as a basic income – a commitment to support creative practitioners over the long term, as they build and maintain connections across place and between people. Deeply knowing the social landscape is invaluable as it fosters authentic and meaningful creative community engagement with place. Ecological art practices with community embody collective ‘transformative learning’ that is a priority in the urgent shift in global learning toward ESD (Education for Sustainable Development)*.

We are proud that Creative Drummin is helping build awareness of a new strand of creative practice that is increasingly valuable for today’s intersecting environmental and social challenges. We hope this work highlights the social dexterity, as well as the ecological insights and aesthetic capabilities, often developed over many years, that skilled ecosocial community art practitioners possess.

We also wish to deeply thank all the Drummin Bog Committee members for their trust and generous support in helping develop Creative Drummin. Our thanks also to Dr Anita McKeown for her incredible mentoring support.

We also gratefully acknowledge the Irish translations for Creative Drummin, by Phoebe Cope, funded by Creative Ireland.

* 2021 Berlin Declaration on ESD

Bunaíodh Druimín Cruthaitheach ar 2ú Nollaig 2017, leis an gcéad tionscadal mar  ocáid tiomsaithe Hidden Reveal le cártaí poist chun Portach Druimín agus Gnáthóg Bhogaidh a chéiliúradh ag VISUAL Carlow, agus meabhraíocht a chur chun chinn faoin dtionscadal nua seo.Bhí ócáid an Hidden Reveal seo eagraithe ag Jules Michael  agus le Cathy Fitzgerald le tacaíocht ó Choiste an Tionscadal Portach Druimíne.


Ar feadh ceithre bliana anuas, tá an t-ealaíntóir Jules Michael agus an múinteoir agus ealaíntóir eiceolaíochta Dr. Cathy Fitzgerald tar éis teacht le chéile, le cabhair an choiste,  chun iarratas a chur isteach chun clár eiceolachta agus soisialta neadaithe a dhearadh. Beidh sé lonnaithe i suíomh amháin, spreagtha ón Ealaín. Creative Drummin nó Druimín Cruthaitheach is ainm dó.

Beidh sé seo mar ardán le aghaidh cleachtas ealaíne; freagairtí don bPortach féin chomh maith le cleachtais  comhoibritheach, a chuirfidh de réir a cdhéile, clár oibre lán de bhrí ar fáil. Beidh sé seo ag tarraingt muintir na h-áite i Naomh Molaing agus Drummond i ndeisceart Cheatharlach, agus daoine ón gContae uilig. Bíonn na gníomhartha idir-nascach seo an-chumhachtach ag spreagadh tuiscint ar áit chomh folláin le seo, agus mar seo glacaimid  páirt i sláinte coiteann na bplainéide uilig.

Toisc go bhfuil an Portach Druimín an t-aon portach ardaithe fágtha in oirdheiscart na tíre, tá fíor-thábhacht shiombalach ag baint leis. Chomh maith le sin, tá níos mó cumas aige chun rannpháirteachas agus cúram muintir na h-áite a fháil. Cuireann sé go mór le h-iarrachtaí phráinneacha uilig na gcruinne chun athchoiriú an córas eiceolaíochta agus oideachas eiceolaíochta soisialta a chur i bhfeidhim.

Mórthimpeall an domhain, tá béim, fás agus tús áite á dtabhairt i gcomhair athchoiriú an córas eiceolaíochta. Is bealach rithábhachtach é Decade of Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030 na Náisiún Aontaithe chun na hAidhmeanna   Inbhuanaithe Forbartha na Naisiún Aontaithe a chur i mbun oibre.

Is feidir le cumhacht an gcruthaitheacht muid go léir a spreagadh chun an samhlaíocht a threorú agus smaointí chothaitheacha, lán de bhrí, a thabhairt dúinn.

Cé go bhfuil sé beag, tá an tionscadal seo ag cur chun chinn an dá sruth éagsúla seo:

I) Cuireann sé teimpléad ar fáil dúinn chun clár ealaínta nua, atá Cruthaitheach, eiceolaíochta agus soisialta, a bheidh in ann spreagadh agus freastal ar mhuintir na h-áite. Cuirfidh sé seo neart tuiscint dúinn ar ghnáthóga  bunúsacha i gcomhair sláinte coiteann na bplainéide.

II) Cuireann sé in iúl an coincheap  go bhfuil obair comh-chruthalach a bhíonn á bhforbairt diaidh ar ndiaidh  ag braitheadh ar scilleanna na n-oibritheirí chruthaitheacha atá líofa in eiceolaíocht soisialta. Is cleachtas é seo atá lonnaithe agus leabaithe in suíomh amháin. ‘Eco-social Art Practices’ (Fitzgerald, 2018, summary here) Tá siad tar éis a bheith ag forbairt é seo ar imeall cleachtas na h-ealaíne comhaimséartha ó na 1970í anuas. Tá alán cumhacht acu an comhrá a athrú.

Mar sin, tá cás láidir ann múnla nua  de mhaoiniú ealaíonta a aimsiú.  Bheadh gá le gealltanas  éigin chun tacaíocht a thabhairt do ealaíntóirí go fadthéarmach, fad is a mbíonn siad ag tógáil agus ag coinneál ceangail idir áiteanna agus daoine. Tá an taithí soisialta seo thar a bheith luachmhar. Is féidir le cleachtais eiceolaíochta leis an bpobal athrú bunúsach a dhéanamh, ‘oideachas claochclaitheach’ a thugtar ar seo. Agus tá an t-athrú i dtreo Oideachas i gcomhair Forbairt Inbhuanaithe.*

Táimid bróidúil go bhfuil Druimín Cruthaitheach ag cabhrú feachtas agus tuiscint a léiriú ar an sruth nua seo de chleachtas ealaíonta. Tá sé tábhactach leis na dúshláin timpeallachta agus soisialta go léir atá ann. Tá súil againn go n-éiríonn leis cur in iúl léargas eiceolaíochta agus cumas soisialta agus aeistéitice a nochtú, atá forbartha go minic ar feadh na blianta ag na h-ealaíntóirí oilte seo.

Ba mhaith linn míle buíochas a ghabháil le baill an choiste An Portach Druimín le h-aghaidh an tacaíocht a thug siad ag cabhrú linn Druimín Chruthaitheach a bhunú. Freisin, míle buíochas le Dr. Anita McKeown as ucht an tacaíocht meantóireachta.

*Fógairt Berlin ar an ESD educational sustainable development 

Creative Drummin and the Drummin Bog Project wish to acknowledge Carlow-born painter Phoebe Cope for the translation above. Phoebe has taken part in Haumea Ecoversity ecoliteracy and Earth Charter courses led by Cathy Fitzgerald.


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CREATIVE DRUMMIN – DRUIMÍN CHRUTHAITHEACH is led by:

Jules Michael is a Carlow-based community artist and painter. To date she has been the primary project designer and co-ordinator on Creative Drummin.

She has a particular interest in how knowledge is shared, how new relationships are formed and how common ground is found through practical, physical tasks.

Anchoring these creative collaborations with a physical place turns that specific place into a platform – a transformative site – for methods of sharing, engaging and enabling co-creativity and collaboration, while building awareness of conservation strategies and biodiversity preservation.

Jules is returning the 3-acre field where she lives in rural
Co. Carlow back to old pasture.

Jules Michael MFA

Dr Cathy Fitzgerald
Ecosocial (ecological) artist,
accredited Earth Charter Educator
& cultural researcher:
Founder – Director of
Haumea Ecoversity




Projects:

2026: Thinking on Water
Walking in Woods

Jules Michael: Canoe and Walking Project, supported by Carlow Creative Ireland and Carlow Arts Services – with artist and scientist Tasneem Kahn, S.E.A School

This is an invitation to explore the River Barrow  — to shift perspective from looking at water to thinking with it; and to see the hinterland of St. Mullins and Drummin Bog from another viewpoint.

Our canoe morning on this wonderful river was designed as a gentle, reflective, and informative experience, combining paddling, observations, and conversation.

More details to follow

[Photos credit: Cathy Fitzgerald]

2026: New All-Ireland Community Wetland Forum – CWF Guide for Wetland and Peatland Creative Projects



Jules Michael and Cathy Fitzgerald, with creative friends of Drummin Bog, Dr Kate Flood (Girley Bog, Co Meath) and Monic de Bath (Co Kildare) feature in the Irish Community Wetland Forum publication A Guide for Wetland Communities Engaging in Creative Projects, launched at IMMA, with Minister Christoper O’Sullivan.

Read Guide here


2026: How We Share
– an online publication

Maeve Stone interviews Cathy Fitzgerald and other creatives that Cathy has supported with ecoliteracy courses and mentoring.

‘Conversations with artists, thinkers and doers that reflect on socially-engaged approaches to making work in the climate era’



An online Arts Council Participatory Award and project by Maeve Stone.

Read more


2025-6 Evening Thoughts: Dark Skies, Deep Time Online course

Development and delivery of a now permanent learning resource on the Drummin Bog Website by Cathy FItzgerald, Carlow Arts Act Award with Haumea Ecoversity co-facilitator philosopher Dr Nikos Patedakis, and international and national guest speakers, including:

Dr Niamh Brennan (Ireland, the evolving Universe Story), Dr Drew Dellinger (USA, ecopoet, activist, scholar of the ecological Dr Martin L King), K Lauren de Boer (USA, Ecopoet, writer, muscian, eco-magazine editor), Robert Woodford (Co-Founder of Deep Time Walk network, associated with Earth Charter International, Aoibhin Ryan (Leave No Trace Ireland), Dr Georgia MacMillan (Dark Sky Ireland), Philip Ryan (Nocht Studio, Glenbower Woodland Dissour This/OUR), Dr Lucas Ihlein (Sydney University, Kandos Creative Community, Australia)

Access FREE Course

In 2026, Carlow Co Council Biodiversity Officer Shane Casey is offering Dark Sky learning for Carlow’s Tidy Town group and others interested.

There are also new awards for Ireland’s National Tidytowns programme for Dark Skies and Leave No Trace Ireland – and the Evening Thoughts has speakers and a module of both organisations.

The Drummin Bog Project became a community member
of Leave No Trace Ireland in 2026.

2025 Carlow’s Drummin Bog represented in Mary Robinson’s ‘Fite Fuaite’ Quilt for the UN COP30 Climate Meeting in Brazil

Brigid O’Regan, with advice from Alexis Bernstoff, both voluntary members of the Drummin Bog Committee, came up with a design to represent Carlow’s Drummin Bog Project.

Brigid then created two quilt squares, one to send to The Mary Robinson Centre for the COP 30 quilt, and another that is framed to share with the community around Drummond.

Brigid shared:

“The quilt square I created for the Drummin Bog Project was then stitched together with the other squares, onward to Brazil with Mary Robinson.

The many aspects involved in the restoration of a small raised bog are like the stitches in this square. I incorporated wildlife as drawn by children in the local school and Borris Lace, also from South Carlow.”

Read more


2024- 25: Lizard Mat Project & school Drummin bog-inspired mural

Jules Michael Arts Act – Creative Ireland, with the children and staff of Drummond National School – details to follow


2022-5: Translation of the Earth Charter into Irish

Cathy Fitzgerald with Phoebe Cope, artist, mother, Gaeilgeior, who attended the Carlow Gaelscoils, and translated the peoples’ Earth Charter into Irish.

Drummin Bog Committee Members, Phoebe Cope, with support from Cathy Fitzgerald, Haumea Ecoversity, Carlow Arts Office, and Drummin Bog Project,, who carefully translated the Earth Charter and Children’s Little Earth Charter, song and school activities into Irish. It is translated to the ISO translation standard.

The Irish translation was presented by Cathy Fitzgerald for Earth Charter+25 celebrations at the Peace Palace, The Hague, Netherlands,, where the Earth Charter was launched for all people in 2000.

The Irish translation joins 75 other translations and is now available on the Drummin Bog, Haumea Ecoversity and international Earth Charter websites, for use as a holistic vision and set of ecological principles, fostering eco-cultural renewal and a culture of peace for Ireland and for the Irish diaspora.

The Earth Charter is included in the
Carlow Strategic Arts Plan 2025-35
for sustainability and climate action (p.3)

Cathy Fitzgerald with CEO of Earth Charter International, Club of Rome Member, Dr Mirian Vilelan, July 2025.
Photo credit: Artist Niamh Cunningham, Carlow


2022-current: Ecoliteracy and Earth Charter Training inspired by the Creative Drummin Programme & Haumea Ecoversity

For Local Authority staff: Cathy Fitzgerald, with co-facilitator Grace Wells, through Haumea Ecoversity and their connections to Drummin Bog and the HomeTree Dinnseanchas Project, delivered in-person 1/2 day ecoliteracy and Earth Charter training to middle management Local Authority, Arts Office and Creative Ireland staff at Co Carlow, Kildare, Meath, Wexford, Roscommon, Kilkenny, and in 2026 to Kilkenny TidyTown and community groups for the Living Values: Living Futures Programme.

For Creative Practitioners in County Areas: supported by Arts Office or Creative Ireland programmes:

2024 Wexford, 2025: Kilkenny, 2025: Roscommon


In Autumn 2026, Cathy Fitzgerald, with co-facilitator Philip Ryan, Nocht Studios, through Haumea Ecoversity and connections to Drummin Bog and the Glenbower Wood, Dissour River This/Our Project, are delivering in-person ecoliteracy and Earth training to senior Directors of Services for Kilkenny and Carlow Local Authorities.

June 2026: Cathy Fitzgerald and Grace Wells with Kilkenny Local Authority staff: from left: Margaret Whelan, Acting Climate Officer. Mary Butler, Arts Officer, & Lianne Kelly, Community Dept for the inaugural Living Values, Living Futures Earth Charter Ecoliteracy training for Kilkenny community groups.
Autumn 2026: Philip Ryan and Cathy Fitzgerald will be providing ecoliteracy and Earth Charter in-person training to senior Local Authority staff, for Co Kilkenny and Co Carlow.
Photo 2025: This/OUR project: Glenbower Woodland, Dissour River and Killeagh Community engagement, East Cork.

2024 The Bog Rosemary Song and creative activities for Drummin Bog with St Brendan’s National School and Carlow-based composer Carole Nelson – Creative Ireland – The Banner Project – Phase 2:

Read more about the creative classroom activities, and view the Drummin Bog marching song sung on the bog.

Carlow-based composer, musician Carole Nelson leading a marching song class with students of St Brendan’s National School

Song performed and filmed live on Carlow’s Drummin Bog.


2023 The Drummin Bog Oral History Online Library Project

Drummin Bog Project Founder and Committee Member Alexis Bernstoff was instrumental for the inspiration for the Drummin Bog Oral History Project

The online Drummin Bog Oral History Library contains and preserves the recollections and memories of individuals who grew up or lived near Drummin Bog, which is the only example of a raised bog in south County Carlow and the South East of Ireland. Drummin Bog is near Drummond and Carlow’s beautiful Barrow River.



Read more here


2024-5: Gnáthóga Nádúrtha – Phase 2 Lead Artists Projects

Commissioned community art peatland-inspired projects by Jules Magan, Dr Kate Flood (Co. Meath) and Monica de Bath (Co. Kildare), continuing from the Gnathoga Nadurtha | Natural Habitats programme.

Joint activities: Lizard workshops at Drummin Bog, Girley Bog, Rathangan Meithal, 3 Sept 2023.

Read the lead Artists’ interim report here:

CWF Artists Webinar series December 16, 2023: hear about the developing Gnáthóga Nádúrtha | Natural Habitats creative-led community engagement programme with Jules Michael, Monica de Bath and Kate Flood:


2022-24: Gnáthóga Nádúrtha – Natural Habitats creative-led partnership between Carlow Arts Office, Kildare and Meath Arts Offices, Creative Drummin, and artists from Kildare, Meath, supported by the Irish Arts Council ‘Invitation to Collaborate Award’.

Gnáthóga Nádúrtha is an innovative, unique and far-reaching creative-led programme. In its first phase, it seeks to identify, map, network and provide ecoliteracy training to support creative practitioners to activate community participation, learning and action for ecosystem restoration, in line with the priorities of the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration.

After engaging nearby residents of Drummond and St Mullins in South Carlow, and the communities from across County Carlow and neighbouring Co Kilkenny, through ecosocial (ecological) creative activities, to the unique and important natural and cultural heritage that is Drummin Bog, in 2021, Carlow County Council Arts Office sought to build on Creative Drummin’s work by developing a proposal for the first Creative Climate Action Fund. While this application was unsuccessful, the process developed relationships and identified the potential to collaborate with Kildare and Meath County Councils and ecoliterate creatives who were working on community wetland restoration projects in these counties.

The Carlow Arts Office revised the grant and submitted it to the Arts Council of Ireland’s Invitation to Collaborate programme in 2022. The successful revised programme Gnáthoga Nadúrtha, led by the Carlow Arts Office, includes several development and education phases:

i) stakeholder mapping and valuable cross-county networking between the Local Authority staff and lead creative practitioners, provided by Dr Anita McKeown (FutureEducation21c), and

ii) comprehensive values-based ecoliteracy training through the Earth Charter, provided by Dr Cathy Fitzgerald of Haumea Ecoversity. This training supports and upskills lead and county creative practitioners interested in learning more about creative-led ecosocial place-based practices to promote community engagement for climate action across the ecologically important natural wetland heritage sites in three counties. 

The project brings together Jules Michael and Cathy Fitzgerald of Creative Drummin, with namely Monica De Bath, Creative Rathangan, Co. Kildare and Dr Kate Flood and Girley Bog Meitheal, Co. Meath,  creative practitioners, artists and Kildare and Meath county councils to leverage the existing artist-led work already linked to the wetland sites in these counties.

Read the Initial Press Release here:


2022 ‘Slow time on the Bog’: painter Mairead Holohan celebrates Carlow’s Drummin Bog with Carlow ArtLinks Award

A County Carlow ArtLinks bursary allowed Carlow-based painter Máiréad Holohan time to research and experiment with ecologically sensitive creative practices. Máiréad works intuitively, responding to the quiet wonders she sees at Drummin Bog.

In her works, she showcases subtle colour pigments that she has developed from Drummin Bog itself. Wishing to work as sustainably as possible, she also sources other natural materials: handmade crayons and watercolours.

Máiréad gratefully acknowledges the support from ArtLinks, the Carlow Arts Office and Haumea Ecoversity and Su Nunn at KCLR.

Mairead attended Cathy Fitzgerald’s Haumea 7-week Essential Ecoliteracy course in 2020

In 2022, Mairead was part of the Haumea Ecoversity 7-week Ecoliteracy ESD Earth Charter course sponsored by the 3-County Gnáthóga Nadurtha Programme.

Read more and listen to Mairead’s interview with Sue Nunn on KCLR.

In 2026, Mairead worked with Carlow artist- arts educator Siobhan Jordan, to provide an eco-arts programme with Creative Ireland Carlow, hosted in her home in South Co. Carlow. A group exhibition took place in early August, at the Carlow Library, opened by Biodiversity Officer Shane Casey.


2021: Creative Ireland – The Banner Project – Phase 1: 2-day programme of events, an exhibition at Drummond Hall and activities on Drummin bog


2021: Developing Inclusive, Holistic Vision and Values for the Drummin Bog Project with the Earth Charter – Cathy Fitzgerald, Co. Carlow ArtLinks Award



The 2021 ArtLinks Co. Carlow Arts Office Award supported Cathy Fitzgerald to research preliminary strategy, vision and values for Creative Drummin, with mentoring from Dr Anita McKeown, incorporating learning and ESD accreditation from Earth Charter International about holistic values education for systems change.


Read Drummin Bog Earth Charter Vision and Values

This award further developed Cathy’s ecological ethics knowledge following her 2020 Arts Council Professional Development Award that supported her becoming an accredited ESD Earth Charter Educator.

In early 2025, Cathy Fitzgerald hosted US Prof. Emeritus Sam Crowell, Chair of Earth Charter International, for a visit and a public Haumea Ecoversity webinar. During the summer of 2025, she also organised an online talk with US Prof. Emeritus Peter Blaze Corcoran, a Thomas Berry Award recipient, delivering a webinar: for An Gairdín Beo, Carlow’s community garden, co-hosted by the County Carlow Environmental Network (CCEN) as part of their 2025 Summer Networking event.

Carlow town’s An Gairdín Beo’s ecological vision is rooted in the Earth Charter, as it inspired Sr. Mary Carmody, on a visit to the US in 2001, in which she met with the seminal cosmo-ecological thinkers Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme, both advocates of the Earth Charter and the Universe Story. Berry and Swimme’s writings connects to An Gairdín Beo’s new Cosmic Walk and Cathy’s online course, Evening Thoughts: Dark Skies, Deep Times, developed for the Drummin Bog Project and now a permanent open course for learners across Carlow and beyond. Evening Thoughts is a book by Thomas Berry on how ecological insights call for radical change in education, law and economics.

In 2026, Carlow Co Council Biodiversity Officer Shane Casey is offering Dark Sky learning for Carlow’s Tidy Town group and others interested.


2021: Creative Ireland Carlow – An Fraughan photo book by Jules Michael, launched for 2021 World Wetland Day

2018-2019: Creative Ireland Carlow An Fraughan and Bog Rosemary three-schools project and a photo book by Jules Michael


2019: “A Revolution in How we Live?’



Presentation by Cathy Fitzgerald PhD, for the Irish Research Council 2-day ‘An interdisciplinary Workshop on Creative Approaches to Education for Environmental Understanding and Responsibility’, Glucksman Gallery, Cork.

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2017: Hidden Reveal Exhibition at VISUAL Carlow & Online Exhibition – Fundraiser Event for the Drummin Bog Project


Organised by Jules Michael, documented and online gallery created by Cathy Fitzgerald, with the support of the Drummin Bog Committee and VISUAL Carlow.

Read more and View Online Gallery

Read more about the event, opended by Dr Liam Lysaght, Director, National BioDiversity Data Centre 



  • Evening Thoughts: Dark Skies, DeepTime Online Course is now a self-paced learning resource on the Drummin Bog website

  • Evening Thoughts: Dark Skies, DeepTime Online Course

  • Minister Chris O'Sullivan on Drummin Bog, County Carlow, 25 Nov 2025. Photo by Cathy Fitzgerald

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

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

  • Voices from Carlow: Drummin Bog in the New Eco Chats Podcast Series with Jules Michael

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Tales and Tastes from the Bog

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

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

  • Creatively connecting care for wetlands: the wonderful Ardee Bog Cafe

  • Drummin Bog Project joins the Friends of Ardee BOG CAFE

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