Clones to Clogher Cross Border Community Connections
The Rural Centre supports both Forum in this cross border project to develop heritage tourism activities for social and economic benefit funded through Government of Ireland Shared Civic Society Fund.
The areas of common history and heritage to develop as income generating tourism activities is based on the 6 themes:
• Issues facing both rural border towns, to explore solutions and develop activities. To develop a roadmap for the way forward beyond the project term.
• Solutions and synergies with existing and new activities
• Review, Evaluation and Next Steps
•Clones to Clogher Ancient Route: to research the 1693 ancient route to produce an information leaflet with revised map showing the ancient route with information on the way markers and other sites of interest and potential redevelopment of the route for walking/ riding/ driving.
•St Tigernach: St Tigernach, Patron Saint of Clones and Bishop of Clogher (506-549) died on 4th April 549 in Clones. The link between Clones Monastry and Clogher St Macartan’s Cathedral. Clogher Forum to take part in annual St Tighernach’s Day 4 April 2025. Explore possible public access to St Tighernach’s holy well.
• Clogher Ancient City Status Research Clogher’s its ancient history
150 AD Ptolemy identified Regia now confirmed by historians to be Clogher
1517 described as a walled city
1563 described the Clogher Valley as the fairest, richest and the most inhabited land in Ireland
1629 King Charles I by letter of patent granted Clogher an incorporated borough with 2 MPs for city of Clogher to the Irish Parliament
•Rose Shaw Photographs: To identify the local Clogher people and places included in photographs but not recorded in advance of a photo exhibition. Rose Shaw’s photographs take you back in time to show ordinary life in the Clogher Valley in the 1900s. Rose Shaw first came to the Clogher Valley, County Tyrone as a governess to the Gledstanes who lived at Fardross, near Clogher. Later in her life Rose returned to Clogher. She was an amateur photographer and in her spare time captured local people in every day activities. Read more
150 AD Ptolemy identified Regia now confirmed by historians to be Clogher
1517 described as a walled city
1563 described the Clogher Valley as the fairest, richest and the most inhabited land in Ireland
Rose: Prose and Pose Celebrating Women’s Creativity – Rose Shaw and Rose Kavanagh
The aim of the Rose & Rose event is to increase awareness and appreciation of the works of two Roses.
Rose Shaw 1859 – 1949 photography) worked as a Governess at Fardross House, Clogher in the early 1900s and in her free time photographed the ordinary every day lives of mostly poor farmers in the Clogher area.
Rose Kavanagh 1859 – 1891 (writer and poet) was born at Killadroy, she was educated at the Loreto Convent, Omagh. Her poems captured the local landscape where she was raised from Knockmany to the Northern Blackwater River. W. B. Yeats said that she was ‘a young inspiration’.
The Clones to Clogher Community connections project is funded through Government of Ireland Shared Civic Society Fund will be carried out through Research Groups, workshops and study visits.
Meeting of Clogher and Clones Forum in Corick House, Clogher to plan future workshops and launch the exhibition of Rose Shaw Photographs.
