{"id":2904,"date":"2026-01-07T10:26:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:43:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:43:46","slug":"kilteevan-childrens-bog-butterfly-postcards-go-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/ga\/community-stories\/kilteevan-childrens-bog-butterfly-postcards-go-global\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilteevan children\u2019s bog butterfly postcards go global"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Photo : <\/strong>Eileen Fahey, Kilteevan Tidy Towns,  with the Kilteevan NS senior class and the postcards of their bog butterfly artwork  (T\u00f3char Stories)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The senior class of Kilteevan NS got the opportunity last June to work with T\u00f3char Community Stories, <\/a>and Kilteevan Tidy Towns leader Eileen Fahey on a bog butterfly art project on Cloonlarge Bog. In November T\u00f3char Stories returned to the schoolchildren to present them with a newly printed postcard series of their artwork – and a box of stamps so they could send their bog butterfly cards out into the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo<\/strong>: The Kilteevan NS bog butterfly postcard series (T\u00f3char Stories)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acting Principal Kilteevan NS, Susan O\u2019Connor said the project had been a wonderful opportunity for the whole school to get to know the local bog and its wildlife better and for the children to create their own unique artwork – centred on the native butterflies of the bog – and mentored by T\u00f3char Stories artist, Annie Holland.  Many of the children, like Adam, with his Common Blue butterfly, and Zofia, with her Speckled Wood, said they were planning to send their cards to their grandparents living overseas. Ruth, with her Holly Blue, said the project had \u201creally got her into nature<\/em>\u201d and she wanted to find out more and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo<\/strong>: Adam with his Common Blue  (T\u00f3char Stories)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: <\/strong>Zofia and her Speckled Wood (T\u00f3char Stories)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo<\/strong>: Ruth with her Holly Blue (T\u00f3char Stories)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

T\u00f3char Community Stories is a storytelling engagement project under T\u00f3char Wetlands Restoration,<\/a> a three year scheme, focussed on wetlands and bog restoration in the Midlands, co-funded by the Irish Government and the European Union under the Just Transition Programme in Ireland. You can contact T\u00f3char Stories via the website https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/tochar-stories\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VIDEO: Watch what happened in the T\u00f3char Stories bog butterfly project in this short video feature we made with Kilteevan NS, Acting Principal Susan O’Connor  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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