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Skehana & District Heritage

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  • Skehana Heritage Week 2016
    Skehana Heritage Week 2016
  • Skehana Commemorates 1916
    Skehana Commemorates 1916
  • Kilbeg Wedge Tomb
    Kilbeg Wedge Tomb
  • Thatched Cottages In The Area
    Thatched Cottages In The Area
  • Garbally Castle - Iconic O'Kelly Clan Tower House
    Garbally Castle - Iconic O'Kelly Clan Tower House
  • The Parish of Killoscobe
    The Parish of Killoscobe
  • The Curraghaun at Windfield Demesne
    The Curraghaun at Windfield Demesne

Welcome

Welcome to Skehana & District Heritage website. Here you can browse through our collection of local historical material which includes information about our people and places. Your own contributions of stories, photos, messages and other material would be most welcome.

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Featured pages
  • Deoch and Dorais

    Deoch and Dorais

    Translates as 'one for the road' or perhaps 'name your poison'
  • 17 -- Fr Yesudas Kodiveettil

    17 -- Fr Yesudas Kodiveettil

    A.P. Killoscobe 2017 - Present
  • Harvest Knots

    Harvest Knots

    Harvest knots were a tradition in many places.
  • Big Houses of County Galway

    Big Houses of County Galway

    Images, families and locations of 'Big Houses' in Co. Galway. Some are no longer extant.
  • They lived amongst and with us.

    They lived amongst and with us.

    Some photographs of our local people that are no longer with us.
  • The Shrine at Tobertynan

    The Shrine at Tobertynan

    Tobertynan Shrine and the de Stacpoole Family, Mounthazel, connection.
What's new
  • Wini Coppinger - Hardiman

    Wini Coppinger - Hardiman

    Wini was quiety an accomplished artist in the area. An exhibition of her paintings was held during the 1992 Skehana Festival.
  • John Hanley talks to Paul McNamera 1996

    John Hanley talks to Paul McNamera 1996

    Gerry Costello includes an interview given by his father-in-law, John Hanley of Kingsland, Athenry in 1996
  • Heritage of Food Village

    Heritage of Food Village

    Photo Gallery
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