{"id":4299,"date":"2026-07-27T15:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/?p=4299"},"modified":"2026-07-27T17:05:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:05:32","slug":"bog-bothy-summer-days-at-cornafulla-co-roscommon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/ga\/blog\/bog-bothy-summer-days-at-cornafulla-co-roscommon\/","title":{"rendered":"Bog Bothy Summer Days at Cornafulla, Co Roscommon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Helen Shaw, T\u00f3char Stories<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is something about wandering down a field in a flourishing bog and suddenly happening upon the yellow and blue of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bogbothy\/\">Bog Bothy <\/a>looking as if it has just landed, like a joyful Tardis from another planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2496\" height=\"1832\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Tester.jpg\" alt=\"To the left, crowd of people sit on benches facing the Bog Bothy.  \" class=\"wp-image-4323\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;aspect-ratio:1.3624412912203971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Tester.jpg 2496w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Tester-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Tester-1024x752.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Tester-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Tester-1536x1127.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Tester-2048x1503.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2496px) 100vw, 2496px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo: Breeding Waders Birdlife and Bogs Event at Bog Bothy Cornafulla, July 16 2026 (T\u00f3char Stories)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s a little bit magical\u201d, local artist <a href=\"https:\/\/visualartists.ie\/events\/after-the-peat-emer-gaffey-at-the-atrium-athlone-civic-centre\">Emer Gaffey<\/a> says when we turn up on a balmy July evening for an event at <a href=\"https:\/\/excavations.ie\/report\/2013\/Roscommon\/0023086\/\">Cornafulla Bog<\/a>, where the Bog Bothy is being hosted by the local community,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornafullamicroreserve.com\/\"> Cornafulla Micro Reserve<\/a> until August 9th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image5-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Two women smile while one holds a notebook and a phone in her hand. \" class=\"wp-image-4328\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7768919137903094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image5-1-1.jpg 1999w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image5-1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image5-1-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image5-1-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image5-1-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo: Local artists Emer Gaffey and Dee McKieran at the Bog Bothy Cornafulla (T\u00f3char Stori<\/em>es)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>WATCH:<\/strong>&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1211827881\">Bird\u2019s Eye view of Bog Bothy at Cornafulla<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-5.jpeg\" alt=\"Two men lift tyres and wood, creating a bench in front of the Bog Bothy. \" class=\"wp-image-4305\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7672790901137359;width:1117px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-5.jpeg 850w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-5-300x170.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-5-768x435.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo: Vincent Harney and his son Oliver, from the Cornafulla Micro Reserve, setting up the Bog Bothy for the event (T\u00f3char Stories).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That evening wildlife expert <a href=\"https:\/\/breedingwaders.ie\/meet-the-team\/\">Owen Murphy<\/a>, from<a href=\"https:\/\/breedingwaders.ie\/\"> Breeding Waders EIP<\/a>, is presenting on birds of the <a href=\"https:\/\/birdwatchireland.ie\/app\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Site-Guide-Shannon-Callows.pdf\">Shannon Callows<\/a> and Cornafulla Bog. Local community volunteers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/acr884\/posts\/vincent-harney-retired-postmaster-and-native-resident-of-cornafulla-athlone-spea\/821481333353407\/\">Vincent Harney <\/a>and his son Oliver Harney are setting up the Bothy while their colleague artist <a href=\"https:\/\/visualartists.ie\/arts-directory\/#!biz\/id\/58ee4de9178f4e104cdba3e9\">Amanda Ralph<\/a> is sharing details with us about her own exhibition, <a href=\"https:\/\/luangallery.ie\/exhibitions\/field-station-cornafulla\/\">Field Station,<\/a> inspired by Cornafulla Bog, on show in the <a href=\"https:\/\/luangallery.ie\/\">Luan Gallery in Athlone<\/a> until the end of August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-37d6f408 alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-0ce06dcb wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-736f218f\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0484-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Woman, wearing round glasses, smiling. \" class=\"wp-image-4330\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6667963951692348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0484-1-scaled.jpg 1707w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0484-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0484-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0484-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0484-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0484-1-1365x2048.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"417\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Cornafulla-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"Image of the bog, of the ground, showing green moss against dark peat - projection on a wall in a gallery with speakers either side of it. \" class=\"wp-image-4334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Cornafulla-3-1.jpg 417w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Cornafulla-3-1-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photos: Artist Amanda Ralph at the Bog Bothy and a view of her Field Station video installation in the Luan Gallery (T\u00f3char Stories).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amanda is a Westmeath native but she bought a place just facing the bog in 2022 and fell in love with the biodiversity of it and how it connected with her research and artistic practice. \u201cAnd then I met with a kind of like-minded group of people who were also interested in studying the biodiversity in the area, and we formed into a kind of a group, and we got involved in looking at the whooper swans on the bog and we then formalised into a group called Cornafulla Micro Reserve. Now, the micro reserve is a bit of a joke because I had 0.8 of an acre in the bog\u2026But since that, more and more people have got involved, and we have 47 acres involved in it now of local landowners who are interested in the kind of protection preservation and possibly the restoration of Cornafulla Bog\u201d she says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"842\" height=\"761\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image.gif\" alt=\"Two women, from behind, look out over the bog. \" class=\"wp-image-4308\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.1064902331442974;width:1117px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo: Artists Emer Gaffey and Amanda Ralph at the Bog Bothy, Cornafulla Bog ( T\u00f3char Stories)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amanda connected with locals including Vincent Harney, a retired postmaster in Cornafulla, and his family;&nbsp; Vincent\u2019s son Oliver and Oliver\u2019s wife Emma have also become active volunteers. While Amanda\u2019s a newcomer, Vincent knows every door and family in the locality. His family farm is close to the bog and he spent his childhood helping to bring home the turf. \u201cMy family has land here going back hundreds of years and part of the land, even in the landlord&#8217;s time, was the bog\u201d he says. \u201cSo part of this bog was our land, where our family cut sle\u00e1n turf back in the day. And when I went to national school I would be told to run home from school at 3 o&#8217;clock because I had to go into the bog with tea for my older brother and my father. So the tea, there&#8217;d be no flasks at the time, the tea had been in a Lucozade bottle. And so I&#8217;d run across the fields into the bog and bring in the tea and the currant cake and whatever they were eating. But we always enjoyed the bog because we lived so near the bog. So we never got this feeling that often people say, &#8220;Oh, I hate the bog.&#8221; We always loved the bog and we listened to the birds, you know, as young people\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vincent, who runs <a href=\"https:\/\/athloneguidedtours.ie\">guided walking tours in Athlone,<\/a> is a committed advocate for nature restoration and for preserving what\u2019s left of Ireland\u2019s living bogs. \u201cI still farm that little farm. I still have the bog. And most of it I\u2019ve put into the<a href=\"https:\/\/breedingwaders.ie\/\"> Breeding Waders <\/a>programme. And so I&#8217;m delighted to be part of that programme and to see a better future now for the bogs as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"571\" height=\"382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Cornafulla-6-1.jpg\" alt=\"Man stands facing a crowd, with a presentation screen behind him.\" class=\"wp-image-4337\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4947810209031696;width:1117px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Cornafulla-6-1.jpg 571w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Cornafulla-6-1-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo: Owen Murphy, Breeding Waders, presenting on bird wildlife and the Shannon Callows at the Bog Bothy, Cornafulla, Roscommon (T\u00f3char Stories)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npws.ie\/research-projects\/animal-species\/birds\/breeding-waders\">Breeding Waders<\/a> programme has been instrumental in bringing local farmers into bog preservation. Cornafulla is a significant landscape for <a href=\"https:\/\/birdwatchireland.ie\/birds\/whooper-swan\/\">whooper swans<\/a> who over-wintering on the bog and protecting that habitat for those birds, and ground nesting birds is a shared passion for Amanda and Vincent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For <a href=\"https:\/\/breedingwaders.ie\/irish-wildlife-services\/\">Owen Murphy, senior project manager with Breeding Waders EIP<\/a>,&nbsp; it is about making wildlife and nature protection part of the land value for farmers. He is himself local to the area and well known and trusted by local landowners. \u201cSo what we&#8217;re doing is we&#8217;re paying landowners to implement management plans. So we\u2019re sitting down with a landowner, we\u2019re&nbsp; saying, how can you manage this? This is what we need done, or this is what the birds like. How does that fit in with your farming regime?.. And then you&#8217;re paying them for delivering. So not only are they farming, and they&#8217;re farming beef or they&#8217;re farming sheep, they&#8217;re also farming curlew or they&#8217;re farming lapwing. You know, they&#8217;re producing these things, and farmers are very good at producing\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0453-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two women, wearing sunglasses, smiling and standing either side of a taller man. \" class=\"wp-image-4339\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4996991082663165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0453-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0453-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0453-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0453-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0453-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0453-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo: Owen Murphy with Rosaleen Fallon, who taught him in Cornafulla NS, with her friend Margaret Ducke, retired principal, Clonown NS, on the other side of the bog, who came to his talk at the Bog Bothy (T\u00f3char Stories<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vincent\u2019s son Oliver grew up in Cornafulla&nbsp; but moved away to work and returned some six years ago with his wife Emma and their young family. He feels he is rediscovering the natural beauty of the place anew. \u201c Actually my back garden extends out onto one of the most preserved parts of the bog where we still have active raised bog growing. So it&#8217;s just really incredible there, seeing all the sphagnum mosses and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Menyanthes\">bogbeans<\/a> and watching all the birds coming and going as well, so yeah, it&#8217;s a lovely place to be able to live\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oliver says the local farmers all get it. \u201cThese farmers do have a great respect for nature. They&#8217;re all from here going back many generations. They love where they&#8217;re from, they respect the farms, they respect the Shannon Callows. So those people were already on board in lots of ways with different programmes. There&#8217;s a huge, I suppose, regret here as well that, you know, we&#8217;ve lost the corncrake. Cornafulla was one of the last bastions in the country for the corncrake. It&#8217;s still on the crest of our GAA club and it&#8217;s gone now the last 12 years, but we hope to get it back. So there is, I suppose, that sense locally that people know what we have and what we&#8217;ve lost and what we could get back &#8211; hopefully\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0478-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Man smiling. \" class=\"wp-image-4345\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6667963951692348;width:681px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0478-2-scaled.jpg 1707w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0478-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0478-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0478-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0478-2-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0478-2-1365x2048.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo: Oliver Harney at the Bog Bothy Cornafulla (T\u00f3char Stories)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Would you like to see the Bog Bothy at Cornafulla?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can find the full schedule for remaining events for Cornafulla Bog Bothy on their website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornafullamicroreserve.com\/schedule.html\">Cornafulla Bog Bothy Schedule<\/a> and artist Emer Gaffey is now hosting a plein air art and bog workshop on Tuesday, August 4th 10am-5pm and she\u2019s part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/luangallery.ie\/threads-of-place-community-exhibition\/\">Threads of Place open air exhibition in Athone <\/a>over the Bank Holiday weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have been following T\u00f3char Stories you have also got to know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/blog\/were-standing-on-the-past\/\">Eugene Dunbar <\/a>from Tyrrellspass, Co Westmeath and Eugene is hosting a Moths of the Bog session at 11am on Monday August 3rd, the Bank Holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>For more connected stories:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>READ:<\/strong> Ella McSweeney (Irish Times April 11 2026) \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/environment\/2026\/04\/11\/ella-mcsweeney-cornafulla-bog-is-a-gold-mine-lets-not-squander-it\/\">Cornafulla Bog is a gold mine,let\u2019s not squander it\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0468-3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"9 people standing in a row, smiling, with the Bog Bothy behind them. A dog lays down in front of them. Two children running to the right of the group. \" class=\"wp-image-4343\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4996991082663165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0468-3-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0468-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0468-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0468-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0468-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB7A0468-3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Photo : Cornafulla Micro Reserve volunteers&nbsp; with Owen Murphy (Breeding Waders) and Helen Shaw (T\u00f3char Stories, end right<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To find out more about the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.12thfield.ie\/previous-work\/\"> story behind the Bog Bothy<\/a> created by the<a href=\"https:\/\/iaf.ie\/\"> Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) <\/a>and architects <a href=\"https:\/\/www.12thfield.ie\/about-us\/\">12th Field <\/a>as a touring, wooden shelter designed to support communities reimagine their changing relationship with the peatlands check out <a href=\"https:\/\/reimagine.iaf.ie\/fieldwork\/bog-bothy\/\">IAF Fieldwork &#8211; Bog Bothy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The 2025 Bog Bothy Tour, across three Midlands communities is supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/galway\/bog-bothy-on-tour-expression-of-interest-information-session\/\">T\u00f3char Wetlands Restoration. <\/a>&nbsp;You can read our story about Tina Claffey\u2019s bog macro photography workshop at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/community-stories\/tina-claffey-shares-the-joy-of-capturing-the-micro-world-of-the-bog-at-the-bog-bothy-milltownpass\/\"> Bog Bothy Milltownpass<\/a> and watch our video with the <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1205055741\">Milltownpass Tidy Towns at the end of the Bog Bothy visit.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Follow T\u00f3char Stories on Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tocharstories\/\">@tocharstories<\/a> and listen to the audio stories on&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5hj0QcnQMlfJJT2JQ2Jkwh\">\u201cWhere the Curlew Calls\u201d<\/a> on Spotify, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/athena-media\/sets\/wherethecurlewcalls?si=9690929bd8994b0c94825fea2d2ab9e1&amp;utm_source=clipboard&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=social_sharing\">Soundcloud <\/a>and the <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/showcase\/12265514?fl=so&amp;fe=fs\">video playlist on 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