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Contact Details: (071) 9854865
Email:kiltyclogherheritagecentre@gmail.com
Due to Covid 19 restrictions, we regret tours will not include Seán Mac Diarmada’s cottage.
We house an exhibition about the 1916 Proclamation signatory Seán MacDiarmada. The exhibition contains an audio-visual facility and interpretive panels, providing visitors with information about Seán MacDiarmada and the history of the locality.
Seán MacDiarmada’s family cottage is only a few kilometres outside the village in Corranmore.The cottage is a designated National Monument owned and maintained in its original condition by the Office of Public Works. It is of considerable historic importance as it is a fine example of a traditional Irish cottage and gives an insight into what life may have been like 100 years ago.
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Oglaigh Na hÉireann is the Irish Gaeilic language name for the Irish Volunteers.This belt and belt buckle was donated to the centre over the weekend.Not knowing what it was and after some research I found it to be a 1930's Irish Volunteer belt.It has its leather stamp and shows FF in the centre, presumably meaning Fianna Fail.
Will keep you updated as the story unfolds and hoping to find an apt place in the museum.
A chara Ciarán
This is Heritage.
Thanks to Joe Sheerin .Here is a collage of all the people who have supported the Centre , the Cottage, the Village and our Events.
Tom and Nuala Kelly arrived at the Centre . We had many a discussion about Seán, the Statue,his school work,his leading role in organising the 1916 Rising as well as some stories of Kildysart, Co.Clare.Absolutely lovely people.Please call again soon which they said they will.
Had a nice visit from Pat and Ann who dropped into the centre they had been staying in #bundran 25 or so minutes away and here they are standing with Seán as so many others have throughout the monuments history. They enjoyed our museum and remarked on the little curio shop display 4 doors down from the centre.😀