Monaghan County Council
A Natural Exploration of Hedgerows
Heritage Officer Shirley Clerkin is joined by environmental scientist Jennifer McAree for a stroll along a diverse, abundant hedge in Ballinode to discuss the wildlife of hedges, good management, trees and history of hedges in Ireland.
Music – Landmark and The Seed in March by Michael Gallen
Recording and editing – Noel Murphy.
Funding – Podcast is funded by the Heritage Council and Monaghan County Council.
Heritage Officer Shirley Clerkin is joined by local heritage experts Mary Kerley and Paddy Sherry for a walk to a holy well in the townland of Aghavilla or Achadh an Bhile (the field of the sacred tree), where they talk about the traditions and patterns associated with these venerated sources of water.
Music – Landmark and The Seed in March by Michael Gallen
Recording and editing – Noel Murphy.
Funding – Podcast is funded by the Heritage Council and Monaghan County Council.
Folk Art and Historic Headstones
Shirley Clerkin is in Donagh Old Graveyard with sculptor Marc Kelly and local historian Paddy McQuaid where they discuss the style and symbolism of the memorials in the graveyards in Monaghan from the seventeenth century onwards. They look at cherubs, skulls and crossed bones and decipher their meanings and how the folk art traditions took hold in the county.
Music – Landmark and The Seed in March by Michael Gallen
Recording and editing – Noel Murphy.
Funding – Podcast is funded by the Heritage Council and Monaghan County Council.
Market Houses
Shirley Clerkin is joined by local historians Martin Brady and Larry McDermott, and architectural author Kevin Mulligan in Castleblayney to talk all about the history of market houses, towns and how big old buildings can help regeneration of towns and villages.
For this episode, Shirley Clerkin is joined by local historians Martin Brady and Larry McDermott, and architectural author Kevin Mulligan in Castleblayney to talk all about the history of market houses, towns and how big old buildings can help regeneration of towns and villages.
Music – Landmark and The Seed in March by Michael Gallen
Recording and editing – Noel Murphy.
Funding – Podcast is funded by the Heritage Council and Monaghan County Council.
CONNECTING NATURE
Monaghan County Council and Cavan County Council seek the services of a small, suitably qualified and experienced ecological team to deliver an exciting initiative to help landowners and communities protect nature by restoring ecological corridors or nature networks.
The project will engage with farmers and communities to map habitat connectivity in pilot areas and to plan ways to restore broken nature networks. It will support the identification of on the ground action by providing materials to improve or restore natural connections and train the communities and the farmers on how to do the works.
Please see the terms of reference and how to apply here
Heritage Week 2022 will take place from Saturday 13th August. The easy online registration system for events is at www.heritageweek.ie
We encourage you to organise an event at or about your Monaghan heritage site this year. There are lists of ideas and suggestions on the heritage week website to inspire you. The broad theme this year is “Sustainable Heritage and Biodiversity”. Organise an Event/Project | National Heritage Week 13 – 21 August 2022
Organisers are asked to consider the following when planning their activities:
But you can be as broad as you like with your event theme.
There is also the facility to upload projects to the heritage week online portal – so if you have short films, slideshows or websites to share, you can do that too.
Enjoy your preparations. The Monaghan County Council Heritage Office will supplement the Heritage Council publicity for events in August as usual.
An initiative to help landowners and communities to protect nature in Monaghan by restoring a wonderful wetland.
We can all play a part in making Monaghan a more resilient place in this time of a climate and biodiversity emergency. In Monaghan, we can contribute by restoring wetland habitats across the county – a natural resource which has marvellous capacity to store carbon, hold flood waters back, filter water and provide homes for wildlife.
We are seeking a wetlands ecologist to help us to deliver this initiative. You can find out more information by reading the terms of reference document. Expressions of interest are sought by the 29th July 2022.
For more information click here: TOR_Wonderful Wetlands ecological services_June 2022
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