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Lackagh - A New Historical Journey
Over the past four years the Turloughmore Heritage Project (THP) was working on the publication of a local history of the parish of Lackagh, Turloughmore. The book, entitled "In their Own Words: The Parish of Lackagh-Turloughmore and its People" was published on 16th December 2001 in association with FÁS and the Lackagh Museum Committee.Many different sources were researched as part of this, but particular attention was paid to folklore and newspaper material. The areas covered in the book include early modern Ireland with particular reference to the early 16th century and Modern Ireland, with special attention being paid to the social history of Lackagh in the 19th and 20th centuries.
In researching this parish history 115 men and women from the locality gave interviews. The group was self selected with ages ranging from people in their thirties to people in their nineties. Local women working with the project as trainee/researchers visited homes and collected interviews. The interviews, though conducted under a number of headings, were loosely structured and open-ended. The purpose of this was to invite people to tell of their own experiences in their own words. This captures how people experienced their own lives, what they themselves considered to be important and worth remembering. By doing this, the THP hoped to deal with those elements, which are missing from mainstream history.
The THP was not just reliant on these present-day interviews either. The material gathered by Schools Folklore Project of the 1930s, and by Ciarán Bairéad as part of the Irish Folklore Commission collection in the '50s, '60s and '70s was examined. These likewise proved to be an invaluable source for the THP. There are 14 chapters in all in the book:
1 Battle of Knockdoe
2 Religion
3 Education
4 Irish Language
5 Pastimes and Socialising
6 Hurling and the GAA
7 Landlords Tenants and the Land Question
8 Farming in Lackagh through the Ages
9 Turloughmore Fair
10 Women's Work
11 Childbirth and Childcare
12 Health 13 Lackagh and the Conflicts of the early 20th Century: 1900 -1950
14 Deaths, Wakes and Funerals.The book retails at 19.05 Euro. (excl. post and packaging).
Bríd Higgins,
Co-Ordinator,
Turloughmore Heritage Project
Lackagh, Turloughmore,
Co. Galway. Ireland.
Tel / Fax: + 353-91-797049
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For those who have just joined me on this page why not go to the beginning of our travels and see some of the places in The Start of Our Journey through the West of Ireland.My Place Amongst the Stones gives the history of my company name, Moytura - a celtic heritage going back thousands of years.
We journey to my own parish of Lackagh - a small village just 12 miles from Galway with a mighty big history. Learn all about the Battle of Knockdoe - one of Irelan'd bloodiest of conflicts in the 16th century.
We then move on to take a quick jaunt around Galway City; and to the heart of Connemara - with its wild and wonderful beauty.
Visit Ireland's finest early monastic heritage centre in Clonmacnoise; and to my favourite of all the early Christian Church locations - Clonfert, with its beautiful tiny 12th century Cathedral of Saint Brendan. Come with me around the grounds and see the Bishop's Palace and the 1000 year old Yew Walk.
While on the Clonfert pages, you can learn a potted history of Saint Brendan the Navigator, possibly the first European to set foot in North America in the 6th. century. And join me in the celebrations when this tiny cathedral was listed in the World Monuments Watch 2000 most endangered monuments.
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Quebec City.On this page you will learn some of the history of our Famine Refugees and find the final resting place of over 6,000 of my country folk who died within sight of their first freedom in over 300 years. This is where many of the Irish roots in North America started.
Our Journey moves on to other places on that visit to Canada where we see Quebec City and some of Ontario's lovely places and then to two of Canada's famous Catholic Shrines - Saint Anne de Beaupré and to Cap-de-la-Madeleine.
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