Timeline and Background

2016 – Galway Waterways Foundation was established as a precursor to Corrib Beo, with the two organizations merging in 2022.

October 2018 – April 2019 – Series of planning meetings held in the Glenlo Abbey Hotel and Menlo Park Hotel, at which it was resolved to form the Corrib Beo partnership.

2nd May, 2019 – Corrib Beo partnership had its inaugural meeting in the Commercial Boat Cub, Galway, chaired by Denis Goggin, with a variety of speakers on themes of Corrib Heritage (Dr. Michael Hynes), the Freshwater Pearl Mussel in the Connemara river catchments (Dr. Derek McLoughlin) and the challenge of saving the Curlew on the eastern shores of the Lake (Kathryn Finney)

12th June 2019 – Corrib Beo held its first AGM at the Westside Resource Centre, Galway, with over 35 in attendance.

25th August, 2019 –  Corrib Beo heritage visit to Inchagoill island, in partnership with the Luskin family and Corrib Cruises, attended by over 200 people, with readings by Anthony Previte and archaeologist Paul Naessens from NUI Galway. The aim of the day was to highlight and promote the rich natural and built heritage of the Corrib

24th November 2019 – Corrib Beo members joined with the EcoEd 4all team in a joint stand at the Galway Science and Technology Festival, which was attended by over 20,000 people. Please visit the education section on the homepage of our website to find out more detail about an education project inspired by Corrib Beo named “Education for sustainability”.

February 2020 – The Corrib Beo website was launched after allocation of funding.

April- June 16th 2020 – Made an application for the “EU LIFE fund, call for proposals 2020”. This concept note proposed the creation of a Corrib data portal to engage communities and agencies to take positive action towards the healthy development of the Lough Corrib and its region, all backed by a Corrib forum/ trust. We will hear back from the results of this from the EU evaluators in October 2020.

October 2024 – Successful lead applicant for Farming for Water EIP Fund on behalf of the Corrib Catchment Partnership.

More information on this can be found in our news section of the homepage of this website.