Lough Neagh Boating Heritage Association

17/01/2026

15/01/2026

15/01/2026

Around the HEARTH - with Lough Neagh Boating Heritage Association

An evening of connecting and networking over heritage and Lough Neagh (Unit 4, Maghery Rural Enterprise Centre).

📅 Thursday 5th February 2026
🕰️ 7 - 9pm

Limited spaces so booking is essential - https://forms.gle/mpkZ6v25Mjb5UUqs6
Free to attend. Tea/coffee and lunch will be provided.

This event is part of the Rural Community Network’s ‘HEARTH project’ and is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund Northern Ireland

13/01/2026

Maghery grotto and old chapel, 5th January

28/12/2025

Falls Shop abt 1898 colorised. Brick building still there.

12/12/2025

Aurora from Maghery tonight

12/04/2025

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The Great Men of the Sea...

Two fishermen John Concannon (standing) and Michael Burke busy hauling lobster pots in a currach. Inishbofin, Co. Galway.

19/02/2025

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🌾⏳ In Bogland, Seamus Heaney explores the deep connection between land and legacy. Ireland’s bogs hold more than just turf—they are layers of history, memory, and untold stories.

✒We have no prairies
To slice a big sun at evening--
Everywhere the eye concedes to
Encroaching horizon,

Is wooed into the cyclops' eye
Of a tarn. Our unfenced country
Is bog that keeps crusting
Between the sights of the sun.

They've taken the skeleton
Of the Great Irish Elk
Out of the peat, set it up
An astounding crate full of air.

Butter sunk under
More than a hundred years
Was recovered salty and white.
The ground itself is kind, black butter

Melting and opening underfoot,
Missing its last definition
By millions of years.
They'll never dig coal here,

Only the waterlogged trunks
Of great firs, soft as pulp.
Our pioneers keep striking
Inwards and downwards,

Every layer they strip
Seems camped on before.
The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage.
The wet centre is bottomless.



📸PoetryArchive - Heaney overlooking the Boyne.

26/11/2024

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26/11/2024

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Carpenter Séan O Conaola observing the built frame of a Currach boat on Inisheer Island. Aran Islands 1959

Part of the National Folklore Collection University College Dublin.
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22/11/2024

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For a brief moment, the hard working boats of Ireland's Western Seaboard, lay idle by the thatched cottages on Glais na nUan pier, Tiernee, Lettermore. Early 1960s.

Notice the pile of rocks on the pier which would be used inside the boats for ballast to give better floating stability to the vessels.

A frozen glimpse of time that we will never see the likes of again.

Thanks to Jamie Malloy and Andrew McGarry for help with naming the location.

07/11/2024

A member of the public found some fishing equipment beside the Ferry bridge in Maghery today and handed it in to us. If you think this belongs to you, please get in contact with us (not posting pics I'm case someone else tries to claim it it)

Clonoe Gallery South West Lough Neagh Rivers and Islands Association Maghery Matters Regeneration Group Ulster Angling Federation Good2Go Paddle boarding Friends of the birches Dredge the barmouth of blackwater South Lough Neagh Regeneration Association