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Clon historical lecture on West Cork people in US Civil War
2021-05-27 11:21 Clon historical lecture on West Cork people in US Civil War   The Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage zoom May lecture on "Recovering the Voices of West Cork in the American Civil War" by historian, archaeol...
Clonakilty local history video launched for Heritage Week
2021-05-21 11:10 National Heritage Week continues until this Saturday 21st August.   Unfortunately, due to the COVID restrictions, Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage was unable to organise its traditional heritage week even...
Recovering the Voices of West Cork in the American Civil War
2021-04-30 11:58 Recovering the Voices of West Cork in the American Civil War Zoom Lecture by Dr Damien Shiels Thurs May 13 2021 at 8.30pm   Around 250,000 Irish Americans fought for the Union during the Ameri...
Dúchas AGM 2021
2021-03-27 11:30 The AGM of Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage was held on zoom recently with 20 members attending. Cathaoirleach Tim Feen extended a welcome to all and reviewed the strange year gone by. The group’s last phys...

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.