{"id":2604,"date":"2025-09-18T12:01:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T11:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2025-09-18T13:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:02:39","slug":"how-the-people-of-kilteevan-roscommon-became-custodians-of-cloonlarge-bog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/ga\/fen-restoration\/how-the-people-of-kilteevan-roscommon-became-custodians-of-cloonlarge-bog\/","title":{"rendered":"How the people of Kilteevan, Roscommon became custodians of Cloonlarge Bog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eileen Fahey is some woman for one woman. She\u2019s a self described \u2018blow-in\u2019 to Kilteevan, Roscommon ( she married Michael \u2018a good Roscommon man\u2019) and did not grow up cutting turf or walking the bog but for the last ten years, as Chair of Kilteevan Tidy Towns, she has dedicated herself to protecting and conserving both Kilteevan and the local Cloonlarge Bog.<br>\u201cA place can change your life\u201d, she says \u201cand this place has\u201d. As she came to love the unique nature of the bog she taught herself about its ecology, learning to identify the plants, insects and butterflies of the land and in the process became a skilled photographer capturing the wildlife of the place for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-c8df5f00 wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image1-724x1024.jpg ,https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image1.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image1.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image1-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph of EIleen Fahey, Chair of Kilteevan Tidy Towns\" class=\"uag-image-2605\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" title=\"image1\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\"\/><figcaption class=\"uagb-image-caption\"><em>Eileen Fahey, Chair of Kilteevan Tidy Towns, on Cloonlarge Bog. Photo Credit: Shane Hynan, visual artist<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In our Heritage Week eco-bog talk and walk in Kilteevan and Cloonlarge Bog on August 16 Eileen shared her own story and how Kilteevan became custodians of the bog and we<br>captured it.<br>Listen to Eileen sharing her <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/athena-media\/eileen_panel_fv_audio-1?si=3f3fe9c466024e93ae82d776ed2fbef5&amp;utm_source=clipboard&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=social_sharing\">story<\/a> and how she connected Tidy Towns to the mission of bog protection. Earlier in the year in June Eileen and T\u00f3char Stories worked with the village primary school on sharing the joy of the bog with the school\u2019s children who created a beautiful series of artwork around the bog\u2019s butterflies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-dca4ea1b wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image4-1024x768.jpg ,https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image4.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image4.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image4-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Eileen Fahey guiding a butterflies on the bog walk with the schoolchildren of Kilteevan NS\" class=\"uag-image-2607\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" title=\"image4\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\"\/><figcaption class=\"uagb-image-caption\"><em>Eileen Fahey guiding a butterflies on the bog walk with the schoolchildren of Kilteevan NS. Photo credit Annie Holland.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1117343354\">Eileen\u2019s presentation<\/a> at Heritage Week and what she said along the <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1111266369\">bog walk<\/a> on the day : \u201cOh, this place is full of mystery and beautiful ecology, beautiful flora,fauna, soft bog. Lots of interesting things to see all of the time, every single day. There&#8217;s always something to be learned\u201d. Part of Eileen\u2019s story is how the bog, and bog walks and paying attention to nature, helped her recover from serious and life-changing illness and disability. For her nature is healing and beyond all the many benefits of bog conservation, to biodiversity and climate change through carbon sequestration, its gift to people is how a walk there, in a thriving bog, can lift our physical, emotional and mental well-being.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therese Kelly, District Conservation Officer, National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), joined us at the Heritage Week event and shared a wonderful Bog Conservation talk on the how and why of bog rehabilitation. The bogs close to Kilteevan are part of Lough Ree SAC ( special area of conservation) and NPWS begin rehabilitation work on Clooncraff and then Cloonlarge Bogs soon. In her talk <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1116770365\">( you can watch it here)<\/a> Therese showed how the work happens and the process of improving the water flow into the land and why it is done.<br>The work is being undertaken by a Bord na M\u00f3na project team, led by Oliver (Ollie) McGlinchy, and they came to the Kilteevan community event, sharing information with people, answering questions and Ollie even stayed to do the complete Cloonlarge Bog Loop walk with us and the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-385e3e04 wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image7-1-1024x607.jpg ,https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image7-1.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image7-1.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image7-1-1024x607.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of participants on the guided bog walk\" class=\"uag-image-2613\" width=\"1024\" height=\"607\" title=\"image7\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\"\/><figcaption class=\"uagb-image-caption\"><em>The guided bog walk with T\u00f3char Stories, Kilteevan Tidy Town and Therese Kelly NPWS stopped at a local artist\u2019s home within the bog to chat and see the work. Photo credit Katie Smirnova.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On the bog walk T\u00f3char Stories naturist Katie Smirnova guided people on the wildlife of Cloonlarge, sharing insights on plant life and also how the plants ( like heather) can tell us a lot about the water table of the land and how dry or wet the bogland is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-218164ca wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250816_Kilteevan1-1024x1024.jpg ,https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250816_Kilteevan1-scaled.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250816_Kilteevan1-scaled.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250816_Kilteevan1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Katie Smirnova showing some of the group the wild flowers along the pathway and explaining which species like boggy landscapes and what happens what bogs are rewetted and the birds, insects and flora that can thrive\" class=\"uag-image-2501\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" title=\"20250816_Kilteevan1\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\"\/><figcaption class=\"uagb-image-caption\"><em>Katie Smirnova sharing insights about what the wild flowers of Cloonlarge tell us. Photo credit Helen Shaw.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>You can get a sense of Katie\u2019s walk in a <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1114837778\">video clip<\/a> from our videographer Stephen Crilly who was following her and also managed to capture some drone footage of the Cloonlarge landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>As we walked along the loop we got an opportunity to ask Therese Kelly about her own <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1111961238\">personal and professional relationship<\/a> with the bog and what this type of work means to her. She told us : \u201cI would&#8217;ve grown up like a lot of people did in rural Ireland in a turf cotton family, and we would&#8217;ve cut our own turf for years. And it was a great way to be able to harvest your own fuel. But I think my studies and my personal life and the job that I&#8217;m working in has exposed me to so much more in-depth information about these bog habitats<br>and how they work and what&#8217;s special and unique and important about them. And it&#8217;s been a privilege to be able to undertake that personal interest in a professional capacity\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-d3d6d11d wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image6.png ,https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image6.png 780w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image6.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image6.png\" alt=\"Photo Therese Kelly District Conservation Officer with the National Parks and Wildlife Service\" class=\"uag-image-2615\" width=\"976\" height=\"854\" title=\"image6\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\"\/><figcaption class=\"uagb-image-caption\"><em>Therese Kelly, district conservation officer, NPWS, on the Cloonlarge Bog walk.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>You can visit <a href=\"https:\/\/communitywetlandsforum.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/320_CCwP_Factsheet_Cloonlarge_A4_v2-00000003-Copy.pdf\">Cloonlarge Bog<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilteevancommunity.ie\/kilteevan-tidy-towns\/item\/698-updated-cloonlarge-loop-trail-map\">walk the Loop<\/a> any day, it\u2019s just a few kilometres outside Roscommon town, but do watch out for Eileen Fahey\u2019s nature photography along the loop, like this rare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npws.ie\/research-projects\/animal-species\/invertebrates\/marsh-fritillary-euphydryas-aurinia\">marsh fritillary <\/a>butterfly she captured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-31d6f055 wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image3-1024x768.jpg ,https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image3.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image3.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a Marsh Fritillary butterfly by  Eileen Fahey\" class=\"uag-image-2617\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" title=\"image3\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\"\/><figcaption class=\"uagb-image-caption\">Marsh Fritillary butterfly (Photo credit: Eileen Fahey)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>And do walk to the peace seat, sponsored by Kilteevan Tidy Towns, with a poem on display &#8211; by none other than Eileen Fahey!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-3eb056a9 wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image8-1024x768.jpg ,https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image8.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image8.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image8-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of the peace bench on the Old Bog  Road\" class=\"uag-image-2621\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" title=\"image8\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\"\/><figcaption class=\"uagb-image-caption\"><em>The peace seat on the Old Bog Road, photo credit Helen Shaw.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-f0f52794 wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image2-1024x768.jpg ,https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image2.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image2.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a sign displaying a poem \u2018Being\u2019 written by Eileen Fahey \" class=\"uag-image-2619\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" title=\"image2\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\"\/><figcaption class=\"uagb-image-caption\">T<em>he poem \u2018Being\u2019 written by Eileen Fahey at the Peace Seat on the Cloonlarge Bog Loop, photo credit Helen Shaw<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>To find out more about Kilteevan Tidy Towns &#8211; visit their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Kilteevan\/#\">facebook <\/a>page and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilteevancommunity.ie\/\">Kilteevan community website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eileen Fahey is some woman for one woman. 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