Cooneen/Coonian Community Development Assoc

26/10/2026

🃏♠️♥️ Monday Night Cards continue every Monday from 8pm at Cooneen/Coonian Community Hall!
New members always welcome!

25/10/2026

🎶 A few snaps from our Cooneen/Coonian singing and music session last Sunday night.

A big thanks to everyone who came along, and to Jimmy Boyle for organising and keeping us in good company as MC.

📅 SAVE THE DATE — 20th December!

Our next session will be December 20th - hope to see you there!

19/10/2026

New round of yoga starts tomorrow at Cooneen/Coonian Hall! Six classes to stretch, relax, and recharge, see you there! 🧘 🙌

12/10/2026

🎶 🎻🪗 Our Cooneen/Coonian Singing Session returns this Sunday!

We're looking forward to getting everyone together again at the Hall this Sunday at 8pm for an evening of singing, music and yarn telling.
Everyone is welcome, come along for a tale, a tune or just to listen along!

Refreshments will be served and we hope to see plenty of familiar faces and a few new ones too!
Please share and spread the word!

12/10/2026

🧘‍♀️ If you have any questions please feel free to get in touch! Catherine on 07730797775

If you fancy bringing yoga to your setting, whether that’s at home, in schools or at work, I’d love to chat about making it happen 💛

Back at Enniskillen Golf Club next wk 😁

Otherwise here's a schedule for this coming wk 🙏🧘💛

23/08/2026

Yoga at Cooneen/Coonian Community Hall 🧘‍♀️

Yoga classes with Catherine are starting at Cooneen/Coonian Community Hall on Tuesday 8th September at 8pm, running for 6 weeks.

£30 for the six weeks, paid on the first night, or £6 per night.

Suitable for all abilities - just bring your own mat.

A lovely opportunity to take some time out, unwind and enjoy a bit of exercise locally. 🌿

Please share with anyone who might be interested.

24/07/2026

👏🐦‍⬛There was a time when the curlew’s call was a familiar sound across the fields and bogs around Cooneen/Coonian. Great to see the work being done across Sliabh Beagh to protect our native wildlife, and this beautiful reminder of the curlew’s place in our landscape thanks to Sliabh Beagh Arts and artist Elaine Agnew.

A new mural celebrating the endangered curlew has been unveiled in Coonian, with artist Elaine Agnew describing the project as a heartfelt tribute to one of Ireland's most treasured birds.

23/07/2026

🎻🪗 Some great photos from a summer céilí at Cooneen/Coonian Hall. Thanks so much to those who shared them with us!

Can anyone help tell us what year this was taken?

We’d love to see more of your old photos and memories!

21/07/2026

18/07/2026

𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞, 𝐌𝐜𝐄𝐥𝐫𝐨𝐲, 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐲, 𝐎𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲?

If so, there's a good chance some of your ancestors are buried at Tullynageeran, also shown on older maps as Tulnagoran.

Long before St. Joseph's Church had its own cemetery, families from Cooneen/Coonian and the surrounding townlands made the journey to Tullynageeran to lay their loved ones to rest.

Tullynageeran, located just outside Fivemiletown, is recognised today as an Ancient Cemetery and was formally consecrated for burial purposes, reportedly around 1592.

The earliest inscription recorded there commemorates Bryan Rafferty, who died on 17 September 1720, aged 60. This is the earliest readable inscription- not necessarily the first burial, as many earlier graves may never have had permanent stones.

A survey published in the Clogher Record in 1959 documented 72 memorial inscriptions(see photos), many of which remember several members of the same family. The most frequently represented names include Bogue, McElroy, McCaffrey, Owens, Keenan and Rafferty, alongside Breen, Breslin, Cosgrove, Maguire, McMahon, Mulligan, Kinnan and many others.

The inscriptions connect the cemetery with families from Cooneen, Grogey, Tullyreagh, Artclea, Brookeborough, Alderwood, Corrafatt, Eshbrally, Largan, Tatnebodagh and the wider Fivemiletown area.

Have you any family connections to Tullynageeran? We'd love to hear your stories.