As part of our 50th birthday celebrations, Connemara West are sponsoring a family fun sports day on Sunday 21st August. The sports day will start at 2pm. We are planning a mixture of races and novelty events which we hope will please all the family. The event will take place on the Diamond Hill Community sports pitch in Letterfrack. The new centre will also be open and it will also [...]
Project on hold until further notice. Wild is a project to bring people together in our community spaces and work together to create a large scale piece of art. The aim is to upscale an image and recreate it to the size of 50m x 25m. We will do this by cutting the image into smaller chunks and individual groups will paint one small section each. On the afternoon of [...]
Connemara West have been working with our wonderful community volunteers to survey and map the six graveyards in the Ballinakill Parish area. There is such a great interest in this project and in local and family history that Connemara West, with support from GRETB, are offering a free Family and local history course on line via ZOOM led by Tutor, Monica Hynes. The course will concentrate on the skills to [...]
Connemara West are running a series of talks with Michael Gibbons for people who have an interest in learning more about graveyards and the rich heritage that is to be found in the area. The 3 workshops will take us on a journey from early Christian Ireland to the present time. The course will be delivered online and is free of charge and will take place on the following Wednesday [...]
Interchanges is an annual micro conference which is an initiative of Connemara West plc, Aquinas College, Michigan and Lourdes University, Ohio. The primary aim of the conference is to provide a forum where intending or existing US Ireland study abroad programme directors and other faculty and students can network with each other and Irish collaborative partners, on location in rural Ireland. The first Interchanges conference was held in Renvyle in [...]
