Photo: Puffins on the Saltee Islands courtesy Betty O’Brien
The Wooden House – More Than Just a Building
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively." (Joan Didion) With much discussion currently surrounding the future of The Wooden House, perhaps this is the right moment to look back at the remarkable history of one of Kilmore...
Liz Jefferies: A Life in Songs and Stories
"Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests. I'll dig with it." — Séamus Heaney When we think of cultural heritage, we often think of historic buildings, fishing boats, churches or monuments. Yet the true heritage of a place also lives in its stories, songs,...
🌿 Come and Meet the Kilmore Quay Conservation Group! 🌿 We'll be at the Bannow & Rathangan Agricultural Show tomorrow in the Sustainability & Biodiversity Village (Row L). Drop by our stall to: 🍃 Meet our members 🌊 Learn about our conservation projects 🐦 Find...
The Little Strand in Kilmore Quay: More Than Just a Swimming Spot
The Little Strand in Kilmore Quay: More Than Just a Swimming Spot "Protecting a shoreline begins with understanding what is already protecting it." The Strand in Kilmore Quay is a narrow strip of sand between the sea and the village, bordered by rock armour, the...
Connecting for the Coast: Over 66 Pledges Gathered at the Coastal Connection Festival!
Keeping our natural, cultural, maritime, and built heritage thriving for generations to come.
Community Grant from the National Heritage Council
Beyond the Harbour Wall: The Legacy of John Power
A people without the knowledge of their past history is like a tree without roots.” (Marcus Garvey) John Power of Olinda, Kilmore Quay, devoted much of his retirement to preserving the maritime memory of the south Wexford coast, a coastline shaped by fishing,...
What is that Orange Growth on Damp Walls in Kilmore Quay?
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common" (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you have ever noticed a common, rust-colored fuzz growing on damp walls or old headstones, you might be surprised to learn what it actually is. Believe it or not, it...
Echoes of a different tale
Fishing off the Kilmore Quay coastline and Crossfarnogue Point before the 19th century was a seasonal pursuit, tethered to the rhythms of the sea. Summers were dedicated to the rich bounty of lobsters to feed entire local families with only a few hardy hands daring to...
Brandycross‘s wooden crosses: definitely not Pagan!
Traditions are rarely easy to explain. Their origins are imprecise and buried under layers of interpretation, generations of hearsay. In archaeology, you can dig and measure and carbon date but in anthropology or folklore you just ask questions and try to see patterns...
The Cutting: A Story Carved in Stone
A Shifting Shoreline: Lough Har Centuries ago, the area around Kilmore Quay looked very different. Water shaped not only the coastline but also much of the land inland. On the north-western side of the parish lay Lough Har, a vast lake that covered nearly one-eighth...
