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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 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. 
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
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 water... 
The Bog Rosemary Song for Drummin Bog with St Brendan’s National School - 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
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.
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... 
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... 
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... 
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... 
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.
A further 2-year Creative Ireland programme for Carlow’s Drummin Bog announced on 50th anniversary of Earth Day - Update: The Drummin Bog Project committee are pleased to confirm a 2-year programme of creative projects to raise awareness of this unique wetland habitat will continue later in 2020 and into 2021. At present, the programme is temporarily suspended due to the COVID-19 virus restrictions. Sadly, fire has also recently damaged part of Drummin Bog but fortunately... 
Drummin Bog celebrates World Wetlands 2020 Day - Drummin Bog, Carlow, would especially like to share this important new Irish guide 'Communities Managing Local Wetlands and Peatlands in Ireland' for the 2020 World Wetlands Day.
Leader funding to aid restoration of Carlow’s unique Drummin bog announced - The voluntary Carlow Drummin Bog Project committee are delighted to announce after several years work, they have secured LEADER funding to enable preliminary scientific investigation of Drummin Bog in South Carlow. LEADER funding will support the first stage of restoring the last remnant of raised bog, an important natural heritage site in the the South East of Ireland.
Carlow Drummin Bog Project will contribute to the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration 2021-30 - Faced with the climate and biodiversity emergencies, the United Nations has declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The goal is to ramp up efforts to reverse centuries of damage to forests, wetlands and other ecosystems. Getting it right will be key to putting the planet back on a sustainable course. UN Decade... 
Carlow Drummin Bog Project receives an invitation to attend the President of Ireland’s Picnic for voluntary organisations - Local communities and volunteer organisations like the Community Wetlands Forum, with the support of other organisations, are voluntary stewards of our wetland resources. The model of community engagement adopted by the Forum promotes positive relationships, implementing local solutions and is a link between public authorities and individuals in the on-going sustainable management of natural heritage... 
Communicating sustainability through the UN Sustainable Development Goals in the Drummin Bog Project - The Drummin Bog is working towards a number of the Sustainable Development Goals
These are goals 3, 4, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17. See the details of each of these and other goals here. In the future, the Drummin Bog Project will use these logos to communicate our work to our local community in Drummin and the wider Carlow area. Of note, the Drummin Bog Project, while a modest endeavour, is tackling and trying to raise awareness some of the most critical UN Biosphere Goals.
Drummin Bog committee visits Girley Bog in County Meath - Following an invitation from our hosting a recent Community Wetlands Forum meeting, the committee of Drummin bog were invited by the Girley Bog Mmeithal to learn about their community bog. It was a fact-finding day but social too as we started off with a picnic in the bog. It was a warm mild day with... 
Drummin Bog hosts Irish Community Wetlands Forum Meeting 26 Sept 2018 - The South Carlow Drummin Bog Project is getting substantial support from the Irish Community Wetlands Forum (CWF) – a umbrella organisation that includes 20 member organisations. The Community Wetlands Forum offers a ‘network for community wetland groups to share knowledge, ideas, research and best practice.’ The Drummin Bog committee was therefore delighted to host the... 
Carlow Drummin Bog Project - The Carlow Drummin Bog Project committee are delighted to announce that the Drummin Bog Project is the County Carlow ‘Heritage’ Winner for the new National Lottery Good Causes Award 2018. The Carlow Drummin Bog Project is one of six category winners named from each county in the Republic of Ireland. Our project will now go... 
Drummin Bog Community Workshop 21st Feb 2017 – All Welcome - Coinciding with International Wetlands Day on the 22 nd of Feb 2017 our committee is organising its first community workshop to to inform, generate interest and get feedback from the local community on the new South Carlow Drummin Bog Project.
Celebrating Carlow’s Only Raised Bog - —Ag Céiliúradh an t-aon Portach Ardaithe i gCeatharlach. The Drummin Bog Project is a voluntary not-for-profit community education project to restore the only raised bog in Co. Carlow. Situated in the South East of Ireland, close to the River Barrow and the historical site of St. Mullins. Formed in 2015 to restore and preserve this...
Creative Drummin Art News
Evening Thoughts: Dark Skies, DeepTime Online Course is now a self-paced learning resource on the Drummin Bog website - We are delighted to share that the “Evening Thoughts, Dark Skies, Deep Time” course held online over the winter months (2025-6) is now a FREE online self-paced learning resource to increase nature connection for adults. It is now permanently available on the Drummin Bog website. Inspired by the community-led restoration of Drummin Bog, its rich... - 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 with Jules Michael - Voices from Carlow - Drummin Bog in the New Eco Chats Podcast Series episode 1 2025 — featuring Jules Michael, artist with the Drummin Bog Project.- The Bog Rosemary Song for Drummin Bog with St Brendan’s National School - 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 - 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.
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,...
- 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.... 
Creative Drummin – Save the Date! - SAVE THE DATES! CREATIVE DRUMMIN Banner Project (Phase 1) – an exhibition and schedule of supporting events – will be happening in Drummond Hall (beside Drummond Church, near St. Mullins, SouthCarlow) on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th October 2021 UCC/Wet Futures paleo-archaeologists Ben Gearey and Rosie Everett carried out peat and pollen surveys during July... 
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... - A further 2-year Creative Ireland programme for Carlow’s Drummin Bog announced on 50th anniversary of Earth Day - Update: The Drummin Bog Project committee are pleased to confirm a 2-year programme of creative projects to raise awareness of this unique wetland habitat will continue later in 2020 and into 2021. At present, the programme is temporarily suspended due to the COVID-19 virus restrictions. Sadly, fire has also recently damaged part of Drummin Bog but fortunately...
“A revolution in how we live? An interdisciplinary workshop on creative approaches to education for environmental understanding and responsibility” on peatlands. - Originally posted on The Hollywood Forest Story : An EcoSocial Art Practice | Co. Carlow Ireland:
#FridayArt4Emergency Trans-Disciplinary Conversations on Peatlands A UCC Research IRC Funded Project #LoveIrishResearch An interdisciplinary Workshop on Creative Approaches to Education for Environmental Understanding and Responsibility Irish Research Council Creative Connection Scheme18-19 October 2019 – The Glucksman, Cork Co-hosted by Dr. Maureen…
An Fraughan: Three Neighbouring Schools Exhibition Creates Buzz for Carlow’s Little Drummin Bog - At the opening of the An Fraughan 3-schools art exhibition on Thursday 6 June 2019 - a lovely sunny day, 128 children, parents, siblings, just about managed to fit into the small local Drummin Hall. Drummin Bog, Carlow’s only raised bog (and the last remaining in the South East of Ireland) was truly celebrated from the creative efforts of children who live in the Drummin area of County Carlow, Ireland!
An Fraughan Art Exhibition for Drummin Bog: Drummond, Co. Carlow, Thurs 6 June 2019 - The Drummin Bog Project is delighted to announce an exhibition to celebrate the work of the children from the national schools of Drummond, Glynn and Newtown, Co. Carlow. The An Fraughan project, led by artist Jules Michael, supported by Cathy Fitzgerald, Annabel Konig and Emma McGrath, is a collaboration between the pupils of the schools, South Carlow artists and Drummin Bog, St. Mullins.
‘An Fraughan’: Drummin Bog School Project begins - The Drummin Bog Project committee are delighted to announce news of The “An Fraughan”* (bilberry) project - a new collaboration between the children of the schools of St. Brendan’s, Drummond, Scoil Moling, Glynn and St. Michael’s, Newtown; with South Carlow artists Jules Michael, Annabel Konig and Cathy Fitzgerald.
Based on the Drummin Bog, the An Fraughan project is an eco-social-arts practice, because it connects a very special Carlow environment with its local community through inclusive, participatory arts activities. 
Creative Ireland Carlow supports two Drummin Bog eco-social art projects - The Drummin Bog Project committee are delighted to announce that two proposals for the Drummin Bog Project are to be supported by Creative Ireland Carlow:
The Bog Rosemary and Fraughan Projects, listed, build on the initiative of the Drummin Bog Project that created a successful community Hidden | Reveal art event at Visual Carlow, December 2017.
Celebrating Carlow’s Drummin Bog legacy landscape at VISUAL Carlow - On Saturday last, 2 Dec 2017 we were absolutely delighted as over 200 people came out to celebrate and support Drummin Bog at VISUAL, Carlow. The response to the artworks, the information desk and the event overall was absolutely wonderful, with people coming from Carlow town and county but also further afield from Dublin, Kildare, Laois and Wexford.
Hidden: REVEAL See artworks online for Carlow Drummin Bog Project fundraiser Saturday 2 Dec, 5.30-7pm VISUAL Carlow - View artworks online kindly donated to the Drummin Bog Project Fundraiser Art Event. Artworks on sale Sat 2 Dec, 2017, 5.30-7.30pm at VISUAL Carlow.
“Hidden: REVEAL” art event fund-raiser at VISUAL for The Drummin Bog Project 2 Dec 2017, 5.30 – 7.00 pm - Get involved in raising awareness of Carlow's unique natural heritage. As part of a fund-raising strategy, the Drummin Bog Project, of St. Mullins, South Carlow is running an art event fundraiser 2nd December 2017, in VISUAL, Co. Carlow.
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