Diamond Hill is a community owned and managed organisation with a mission to develop sporting facilities that make a   contribution to the health and wellbeing of the local  community.  Diamond Hill currently manages  a community sports pitch, AstroTurf pitch and a purpose built gym and changing rooms in Letterfrack village. Diamond Hill is recruiting a General Manager at Diamond Hill Community Sports Centre and Gym  on a fixed term contract [...]

At an Extraordinary General meeting of Connemara West on the 8 April 1976 it was formally decided to proceed with  the building of the Teach Ceoil.  With the help of a grant from Bord Failte, the Teach Ceoil was built in Tully village, Renvyle  in 1977 for £17,000.  The first session and the official opening took place on the 5 July 1977.  In People in Development - A History of [...]

The first Aquinas programme in Tullycross was led by Professor  Mona L. Schwind, O.P. and Professor Elizabeth Jennings with fourteen students, eight boys and six girls from the 15 September to the 15 December 1973.    From a  written description by these Aquinas College Students and Faculty in Ireland  titled University Project in Tullycross we learn  that "it  was the only American college to maintain a study center in Ireland [...]

Going through the Connemara West archives has brought up a few surprises and in the coming weeks we may have to share a few gems that we found that are not directly related to Connemara West!   However, for this week's blog we have chosen the  few  images we have Tullycross before Renvyle Thatched Cottages were built and some of the  cottages under construction.  Due to the large support in the [...]

Connemara West Community Projects CLG is currently recruiting for a Community Employment Supervisor to lead and supervise a community employment scheme based in Letterfrack and surrounding areas.  The supervisor will work closely with the Project Management Committee that oversees the scheme.   The joint aim of CE and Connemara West Community Projects CLG is to enhance the employability and mobility of disadvantaged and unemployed persons by providing work experience and training [...]

At its monthly Board meeting held on July 22nd, Connemara West wished Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) every success in its recent application as part of the Connacht Ulster Alliance (CUA)   to establish a technological university in Connacht/Ulster.  The application was made to the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, TD. In addition to GMIT, the Alliance comprises the Institute of Technology Sligo, [...]

Connemara West has opened a pop-up remote working hub in Tullycross village.  The Hub is located at Renvyle Thatched Cottages making it possibly one of the most unusual and picturesque digital spaces in the West of Ireland. Users of the pop-up hub also have the option of booking accommodation in a separate cottage although accommodation availability is limited for the next few months due to high demand. The pop-up remote [...]

Connemara West are launching a graveyard mapping project to record the memorials and heritage of the  local graveyards and burial grounds  in the Parish of Ballinakill.  This is an ambitious plan to  record and digitally map the six  graveyards and their memorial inscriptions.   It is also planned to capture, within their wider context in the landscape,  other burial grounds and monuments in the area through aerial photography and videography. To [...]