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…
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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.
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…
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.
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,…
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!
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…
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