Historic coastal village of Timoleague: Duchas Film documentary

For Heritage Week 2022, Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage has once again decided to do a film documentary.  As part of our celebrations, we will be visiting the historic coastal village of Timoleague which is situated at the mouth of the Airgideen river estuary on the cusp of Courtmacsherry Bay.  It is a picturesque place steeped in historical fact, along with myth and legend, and to take us back over the centuries our guides are Diarmuid Kingston and Michael O’Mahony.

We hope that the viewer will enjoy our visit to this historical coastal village and its hinterland with its spectacular scenery and rich folklore.  It is indeed a place of historical importance with its ancient abbeys and wonderful artistically endowed churches.  It is only by a visit that their beauty and uniqueness can be fully appreciated.

Click here to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6s9pgGBst8

Membership 2022

Membership of Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage for 2022 is now due. Membership fees are as follows:

Individual: €10

Students: €5

Families: €25

and can be paid using any one of the following three options:-

(1) Internet banking.
Please transfer the appropriate fee from your bank account to :

Account Name: Duchas Clonakilty Heritage
IBAN:  IE82IPBS99071221393419
BIC: IPBSIE2D

Bank: Permanent TSB, Clonakilty, Co. Cork

N.B. Please include your FULL NAME with your payment so that it will appear on our bank statement.

Once transaction is complete, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the following information so that we can place you on our membership list:

Your Full Name: ________________________

Your Email address to which we will send information:__________________________

Mobile Phone Number (Irish mobile only):____________________________

(2) In person in your own bank
Use the following bank details:

Account Name: Duchas Clonakilty Heritage
IBAN:  IE82IPBS99071221393419
BIC: IPBSIE2D

Bank: Permanent TSB, Clonakilty, Co. Cork

N.B. Please include your FULL NAME with your payment so that it will appear on our bank statement.

Once transaction is complete, please email  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the following information so that we can place you on our membership list:

Your Name: ________________________

Your Email address to which we will send information:__________________________

Mobile Phone Number (Irish mobile only):____________________________

(3) By Post
Send your appropriate membership fee (not cash) to:-

Fachtna McCarthy,
Cisteoir/Treasurer Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage,
"Cuas",
Tawnies Lower,
Clonakilty,
Co. Cork.

Cheques/postal orders to be made payable to Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage (euro currency only please).

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Benefits of Membership

You will:-

Third Dúchas Clonakilty historical journal now on sale

Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage's third volume of the popular “Clonakilty Historical and Archaeological Journal” is now available at local outlets costing €10. It contains 12 excellent articles examining different aspects of local history and built heritage, focusing on the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, as well as many interesting photos - some of which have not been published before.

Clonakilty Town Council A History

We are delighted to announce that the Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage published book, ‘Clonakilty Town Council a History 1613 – 2014’, is now available.

This project was organised by a sub-group of Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage who engaged the services of Dr Matthew Potter, an authority on local government in Ireland, who was joined by Dúchas members Tomás Tuipéar and Michael O’Mahony, to write this comprehensive history. In the words of our Cathaoirleach Tim Feen, ‘this is a veritable history of Clonakilty’.

The limited edition of 200 illustrated books, containing previously unpublished documents and research specific to Clonakilty, are available at :

COUGHLAN’S, Rossa Street, KERR’S, Ashe Street and PADDY MEADE’S, Pearse Street, at € 25.

Official Launch Clonakilty Historical & Archaeological Journal Volume 3

This volume will be launched by Dr Danielle O’Donovan. Danielle is from Ardfield, just outside Clonakilty. She gained her PhD in architectural history from Trinity College Dublin in 2008 and publishes on Irish medieval architecture and learning in museums. Danielle has worked for Trinity Irish Art Research Centre, Trinity Centre for Research in IT in Education and the Irish Heritage Trust. Danielle is the programme manager at Nano Nagle Place, which has just been awarded the Council of Europe Museum Prize for 2022.

The journals are available at a price of €10 in the following Clonakilty bookshops: Coughlan's Bookshop (who can arrange for delivery by post), Kerr's Bookshop, Paddy Meade Newsagent and the Michael Collins House.

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Dec 20, 2021 08:00 PM 

Register in advance for this meeting: HERE
 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Please note, this is a meeting not a webinar, so please ensure you are on mute when you join.

Utter Disloyalist Tadhg Barry and the Irish Revolution

Our next lecture is as follows (see link to register below):

Utter Disloyalist

Tadhg Barry and the Irish Revolution

Zoom Lecture

by

Dr Donal Ó Drisceoil

on

Thurs November 25

at

8pm

Tadhg Barry, the last high-profile victim of the Crown forces during the Irish War of Independence, was shot dead in Ballykinlar internment camp, Co. Down, on 15 November 1921. Half the population of Dublin lined the streets as his body was borne through the capital, and his funeral in his native Cork dwarfed even those of his fallen comrades, Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney. Who was this man and why has he since been largely forgotten?

Barry was a fascinating activist, trade union official, journalist, poet, Irish Volunteer, GAA official and author of the first book on the rules of hurling. He was described by his British enemies as an ‘utter disloyalist’ and by a comrade as ‘a characteristic product of Rebel Cork – courageous, kindly, generous to a fault, bold and daring, and independent in speech and action’.  

Barry had many connections with West Cork: Coláiste na Mumhan in Ballingeary was a home from home, he organised workers across West Cork for the ITGWU, and he wrote a column on Cork City affairs for both the Skibbereen Eagle and, later, its nationalist competitor, the Southern Star. Among those interned with Barry in Ballykinlar was John Flyer Nyhan of Clonakilty, who was among those Barry was waving goodbye to when he was shot dead by a sentry. 

To mark the 100th anniversary of Tadhg Barry’s death, Dr Donal Ó Drisceoil of the School of History, UCC has produced a new biography, published by Mercier Press: Utter Disloyalist: Tadhg Barry and the Irish Revolution Copies of his book are available in Clonakilty bookshops.