Terryland Forest Park
Join us for the exciting '7 Galway Castles Heritage Cycle' on May 18th
Tuatha Terryland Forest Park. Looking back and moving forward. 25th Anniversary (2000 – 2025)
Thanks to funding from Creative Ireland and support from Galway City Council, the Tuatha of Terryland Forest Park will be hosting a series of artistic events to celebrate 25 years of Terryland Forest Park.
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Art Workshops by Artist-in-Residence, Helen Caird, with Three City-based
Schools
Artist Helen Caird has arranged with each school to undertake an art workshop whereby the
children involved will create either a painting, a drawing or a collage piece
envisioning
the next 25 years of Terryland Forest Park as the same was done with children
who
attended these schools at the time of the park’s launch 25 years ago.
The workshops will take place as follows:
Scoil San Phroinsias, Tirellan Heights: Helen will be doing a workshop with 4th Class pupils on
Friday 2nd of May.
Castlegar National School: - Helen will be doing a workshop with 6th Class
pupils on
Wednesday 7th of May.;
St. Nicholas’ Parochial School, Woodquay - Helen will be doing a workshop with 6th Class
pupils on
Wednesday 14th of May.
Once all the workshops are completed, Helen will select a number of artworks to
be
displayed on the day of the official ceremony which will take place on
Thursday, 5th of
June and will be attended by the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins. All
the artworks from all three schools, however, will be archived.
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Creative Movement Workshops with Roberta Ceg.
The workshops will take place in the park and be filled with exercises, games of mobility, agility and endurance. The aim is to become more confident and playful in how we move and with our environment as well as with each other.
Dates of workshops to follow
'Nature without Borders'- North & South Ireland unite to Restore Native Ecosystems
Families in action at the Terryland Forest Park 'Plantathon 2025'.
Many thanks to the volunteers that participated in our range of activities at Terryland Forest Park on Saturday.
As well a clean-up of the woods, meadows and pathways as part of An Taisce's National Spring Clean, volunteers also removed refuse from Terryland River, mulched the park's new fruit bush pocket orchards, and undertook the first mapping of a new 6km blue-green walking/running trail within the park and along the River Corrib/Dyke Road.
On next Saturday (March 29th) , we will be hosting our annual Community Tree Plantathon.
So please join us to celebrate 25 years since the first planting in Terryland Forest Park by creating a hedgerow, a pocket woods and a willow field.
Register at https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/1284820375329?aff=oddtdtcreator
On March 12th 2000, some of the 3,000+ volunteers, working under the auspices of Galway Corporation (now council) Parks department and its superintendent the recently appointed Stephen Walsh with a multi-sectoral committee, created a wonderful oak grove on the first day that Terryland Forest Park opened. Twenty oak saplings were planted in a circle surrounding a single oak sapling, giving recognition to the Celtic pagan druids and early Christians, especially Saint Brigid of Kildare (Cill Dara, Irish for 'church of oak') fame, who worshiped amongst nature and gave due respect to the largest of our native tree species. The ancient ones often knew more than modern society gives them credit for. For they understood the significance of trees and plants in maintaining life on the planet which science is helping us to rediscover in the last century or so.
Please Join us this Saturday for our ongoing Wetland restoration project
Once again dear friends we are asking you to join us for our wetland restoration project in Terryland Forest Park.