The Corrib’s Lesser Known Heritage Riches  –   Corrib Beo Talk Series

Galway City Museum will host a lunchtime talk series that explores and profiles many of the Corrib’s lesser-known heritage riches.

The initial series of eight scheduled talks, ranging across the lake’s natural, cultural and built heritage, are designed to inform, stimulate debate and inspire action towards creating greater public awareness of, and the better preservation of these cultural gems. It is also hoped that the series will help identify potential challenges and opportunities whose advancement will enhance the Corrib’s rich heritage tapestry.

 

The first talk on 29th January will be delivered by author and historian, Willie Henry and treat with a number of the interesting discoveries made during research for his major upcoming book on the heritage legacy of 10,000 years of human habitation on the Corrib.

The hidden archaeology of Lough Corrib by archaeologist, Paul Naessens on 26th February is the title of the second talk.  The subject will be on the relatively inaccessible 11th century Pre-Norman Gaelic stone fortress on Iniscremha Island on Lough Corrib.

The talk series will also cover aspects of the lake’s natural history and its Geopark (UNESCO World Heritage status pending), its fisheries and 19th century Icehouse, its catchment energy and recreational potential, its 4,000-year-old log boat heritage and its many Norman and Viking remnants. They will also focus on the national and international importance of its monastic era and thirty-one monastic settlements.

The project is an initiative by Corrib Beo in collaboration with Galway City Museum.

Further updates available at Corrib Beo news page

Click here for event details on Galway City Museum website.

Carraigin Castle

Cargin Church

Color enhanced drawing by Willie Henry  of William Wilde illustration from mid 1800’s of 11th Century fortress Carberry Fort (which is now totally obscured and inaccessible).

*Photograghs Courtesy of Willie Henry