



Welcome to Tóchar,
an exciting wetlands restoration project
that is situated in
Ireland’s midlands
and surrounding
counties.
Tóchar, implementing action 2.1 of the EU Just Transition Programme in Ireland, aims to restore degraded wetlands, in the context of a just transition and move towards carbon neutrality. Nature restoration is part of a social transition, where the restoration of landscape goes hand in hand with community restoration and our relationships with nature.
Nature restoration is a part of a social transition
Tóchar was chosen as the project name, to represent the path along the Just Transition journey, and as a reminder that generations gone before us have used and experienced bogs and wetlands in a myriad of ways. A tóchar or togher is a path through the bog or wetland, hundreds of which have been found deep in the peat across the midlands. Some were made from heavy oak, which had been transported great distances, others were made from other tree species and occasionally flagstones.
13th January 2026
Tóchar in cooperation with the Irish Architecture Foundation and 12th Field are now inviting Expressions of Interest from communities who
7th January 2026
Photo : Eileen Fahey, Kilteevan Tidy Towns, with the Kilteevan NS senior class and the postcards of their bog butterfly
23rd December 2025
by Helen Shaw — curator of Tóchar Stories When we meet communities in the Midlands of Ireland and say Tóchar, and
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