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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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The Cold Snap
provided a nice walk through Gortnaderry and Raheelin to a small lake called Lough Gillaganleine (Fellow without a shirt)which is only a stones throw from the historic village of Kiltyclogher.
Here is a story from The Duchas collection of how the Lake got its strange name.
It is one of many.
It is told that long ago when religion was denied by many and when nuns and priests were not sure of their lives two nuns were travelling along Gortnaderry and about two miles outside of the town of Kilty. A man sighted them and followed them a long way trying to kill them. One of them was named Ellen and she was the weaker of the two, and was giving up running when the other nun shouted: "Run Ellen" many times. When the man was overtaking her this lake sprang up and swallowed him and the nuns escaped. Since then the lake and district are called Raheelin(Rith Ellen). The Irish for Run Ellen.
Happy Christmas and a Happy new year to all who have visited our Historic Village, our historic sites and helped us with all our ongoing Heritage projects. A special thanks to Paddy McGowan and Kieran Mc Griskin for our beautiful Christmas Tree which brings life to our village every year.
Thank You
We have been recently looking into the animals that once lived in Ireland like wild Boar and Elk. Carbon dating of a bears knee bone has pushed human inhabitation as far back as 12,500 years ago but the one interesting fact is that all Polar Bears originated from Irish Bears having common ancestry. Have a listen to this amusing National Geographic clip.
Its short.3 mins.
Happy Christmas
A chara
Ciarán
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Polar Bears Are Irish? | Nat Geo Live
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National Geographic Explorer Beth Shapiro describes the common ancestry of polar bears and brown bears.➡ Subscribe: bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe➡ Get More N...