Profile of Michael O’Donohoe, Castleisland Historian with Co Clare Roots

This month marks the tenth anniversary of Castleisland District Heritage, an initiative that finds its roots in the research of the late school principal, Michael O’Donohoe. As part of National Heritage Week 17-25 August 2024, a selection of Michael’s work will be on display in St Brigid’s Hall, Castleisland at our Celebration Exhibition on Saturday […]

Castleisland: Mapped and Measured 180 Years Ago

About the year 1836, a young man named John O’Donovan was despatched by the office of the Ordnance Survey to visit in succession every county in Ireland with the object of noting and recording all existing remains of antiquity:   By the direction of the Ordnance, O’Donovan visited, we may say, every townland in Ireland, […]