Tóchar Community Stories is an important cultural custodianship project and is a vital part of the Tóchar Midlands Wetlands Restoration Project. Through collaborative storytelling, partnering with communities across the eight counties in the Just Transition Territory, it aims to explore and record the experiences of communities with wetlands, including personal journeys along the just transition curve from extraction to restoration.
Nature restoration and decarbonisation is part of a social transition, where land use is aligned with community well-being and belonging. A tóchar is an Irish word for a pathway through the bog. Tóchar Community Stories will trace that journey, the past, present and envisioned future, and ensure those living in the region have a voice in co-designing the transition for the benefit of people, places and nature. Working with community groups, the Tóchar Stories team are facilitating creative community workshops designed to connect communities, support their development and future resilience. These workshops can take the form of photography, art or audio storytelling.
If you are part of a group with a story to share and would like to know more about these workshops please contact Helen on tocharstories@gmail.com or join our conversation on Bluesky
Telling Kilcormac’s story – a place and belonging community workshop
Come along to this ‘Place and Belonging Storytelling Community Workshop hosted by Tóchar Stories and Kilcormac Development Association…
National Heritage Week ~ Tóchar Stories bog talk and walk in Kilteevan, Co Roscommon
The sun shone on the Tóchar Stories bog talk and walk in Kilteevan, Co Roscommon…
Poet, Jane Clarke on her changing relationship with the boglands
For International Bog Day Tóchar Stories partnered with the National Library and the Seamus Heaney…
Bog Eco-Talk & Guided Walk, Kilteevan, Roscommon – August 16th 2025
In celebration of Heritage Week and in association with the Kilteevan Tidy Towns Group and…
Tóchar Stories workshop with St Anne’s School, Tyrrellspass features on Countrywide Bog Special
Photo credit: Annie Holland Ella McSweeney featured a Bog Special on the Countrywide programme on…
Event: International Bog Day at Heaney Listen Now Again Exhibition
Our unfenced country Is bog that keeps crusting Between the sights of the sun” –…
Kilteevan primary school children get to discover butterflies at their local bog and create their own artwork
By Helen Shaw – Tóchar Stories curator Photo 1: Samratchana, a 2nd Class pupil in…
Tyrrellspass children get to show and tell their own stories of Cloncrow Bog
Photo 1: Hugo Davis, one of the 4th Class pupils in the Tóchar Community Stories…
Mapping, Listening, Seeding and Singing
How Tóchar Community Stories is working to capture the stories of people living by the …
Tóchar Community Stories – People, Land, Nature & Belonging – workshops
Tóchar Midlands Wetland Restoration is excited to announce our cultural custodianship and heritage of wetlands…
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