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The Connecting Through Heritage Podcast Series highlights much of Leitrim’s built, natural and cultural heritage from the people who know most about it.
In our latest Memory Meitheals episodes, Fionnuala Maxwell will be speaking to Leitrim residents about the heritage of their local area and their memory’s of growing up and living in Leitrim
The Connecting Through Heritage Podcast Series is an initiative of the Leitrim County Council Heritage Office and is part-funded by the Heritage Council.
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62 minutes
Guest interviews
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English
United Kingdom
21 episodes
since Aug. 14, 2020
episodic
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The Leitrim Holy Wells Project is a community heritage initiative to research Holy Wells across Co. Leitrim. The first phase of the holy wells project took place this past summer (2026). Experts surveyed 44 known wells, probed traditions surrounding them and searched for previously unknown wells. S…
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The Leitrim Fieldnames Project aims to record the unique field names found in the county that offer insight into times past and the heritage of the county. The names of our fields are an important connection to our heritage and they can tell us a lot about our local area, characters who once used t…
The Leitrim Sweathouse Project is a community heritage initiative which aimed to provide opportunities for people to engage with the traditions of sweathouses in Leitrim, through a coordinated programme of heritage activities and events. The project ran throughout 2021 and 2022 and set out to train…
The Leitrim Basket Project aims to celebrate basket making traditions in Leitrim. This project explores the historical context, techniques, materials, and the enduring cultural significance of basketmaking in the 1900’s with particular emphasis on the daily use of willow baskets for teeming (draini…
School Days & Growing Up in Drumcree
In the second part of this Memory Meitheals feature, the conversation moves from mill life to school days and the everyday adventures of growing up in the Drumcree and Glebe area. Florrie Moynihan (née Rowley), Mel Rowley and Gerry Reilly recall the teachers…
Drumcree Mill: Turning the Wheel of Memory
Acheson’s, or Drumcree Mill, is remembered in this first episode of a rich two-part Memory Meitheals feature. Neighbours Florrie Moynihan (née Rowley), her brother Mel Rowley and Gerry Reilly guide us through the bustle, craft and community that once surro…
Devilment & Daylight: Tales from Bunnybeg (Part 2)
The second instalment of this two-part conversation widens the lens as Vincie and J.J. Mulligan delve deeper into stories of family, neighbours, devilment and events in the local town of Mohill. We hear a lot more family history and of the long…
Devilment & Daylight: Tales from Bunnybeg (Part 1)
In this wonderfully entertaining first instalment, brothers Vincie and J.J. Mulligan from Bunnybeg, Eslin, share a treasure trove of stories drawn from their childhood in rural Leitrim. Full of devilment, quick wit and colourful detail, their m…
Songs, Streets & Stories: Mohill in Its Heyday
In this warm and lively episode of Memory Meitheals, neighbours Tish Dunleavy and Eilish O’Callaghan bring us back to their childhood on Main Street, Mohill — a time when the town thrived with shops, characters, festivals and constant activity.
The…
If you were to ask anyone in or around Mohill, they would undoubtedly speak highly of Michael and Madge Casey, a remarkable couple deeply ingrained in the community through their involvement in various activities over the years. From horse shows to fire services to the Mohill Agricultural Show, the…
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