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Lecture by Professor William O’Brien
2024-11-13 22:41   Our next lecture will be on Wednesday November 27th (please note the departure from our usual Thursday night) and will be at the earlier time of 8pm:      A Tale of Two Forts:  Landscapes of Pow...
Third Mayoral Election
2024-05-06 20:07 Clonakilty gearing up for it's third Mayoral Election - public information meeting on Thursday 9th May 2024     As people all over the country go to the polls in County and City Council and Europ...
Courtmacsherry RNLI: 200 years of saving lives at sea
2024-04-20 16:30 Courtmacsherry RNLI: 200 years of saving lives at sea by Micheál Hurley, Jim Crowley and Diarmuid O Mahony (Courtmacsherry RNLI)     A brief history of the Irish Coast Guard – 1822-2024 by Niall ...
CLONAKILTY 1798 JOURNAL BEING UPDATED AND RE-PUBLISHED
2024-04-16 13:41 Clonakilty 1798 Journal being updated and re-published    A sub-committee of Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage is currently working on the republication of the 1998 “Battle of the Big Cross” journal publis...

Documentary: Historic Coastal Village of Timoleague

As part of Heritage Week 2022, Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage visited the historic coastal village of Timoleague which is situated at the mouth of the Argideen river estuary.  To take us back over the centuries our guides are Diarmuid Kingston and Michael O’Mahony.

Documentary: Three Local Stories

Produced as part of Heritage Week 2021, this documentary tells three stories. The first part is the history of Lisselane Estate and in particular two of its owners – the infamous landlord William Bence Jones and in more modern times, C. O. Stanley. The second section concentrates on Kilgarriffe old cemetery and some of the many important individuals and families interred there over the last three hundred years or so. The final section of the video highlights Ring Village and the nearby Ballintemple Graveyard, detailing the importance of Ring as a port and the 800-year history of the cemetery wherein lay the remains of Tadhg an Asna among other notable names.