{"id":4757,"date":"2026-11-11T12:46:29","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T12:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/?p=4757"},"modified":"2026-11-11T12:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T12:46:56","slug":"bog-bothy-a-space-for-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tocharwetlands.ie\/ga\/blog\/bog-bothy-a-space-for-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Bog Bothy: A space for conversations\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Helen Shaw, T\u00f3char Stories  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Photo:
Photo: David Jameson and Evelyn D\u2019Arcy, 12th Field architects, within the Bog Bothy\u00a0 2025 (photo Ste Murray, courtesy of 12th Field).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the movie Field of Dreams<\/em> the farmer Ray Kinsella hears a whisper; \u2018if you build it, he will come\u201d. This year, watching the Bog Bothy tour<\/a> across three peatland communities there was often a sense of a building, an installation, gathering and enabling people to come together. David Jameson<\/a>, co-founder of 12th Field<\/a>, the architect practice behind Bog Bothy, says; \u201cThat\u2019s what Bog Bothy was about. It was about creating a space on the bog, both literally and metaphorically, a place to come together to discuss, but a place to give people space to have conversations as communities about the bog, because I think the future of the bog is best decided by the people who have historically lived on it and cared for it and stewarded it.\u201d   <\/p>\n\n\n\n