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Explore your shore and local biodiversity at Portmór Pier in Malin Head, and join marine biologists from The Sea Collective to discover the local marine biodiversity. This event presents an opportunity to develop your knowledge about Ireland's incredible marine biodiversity and learn how to contribute to citizen science records.The event runs from 10am-12pm with limited spaces and booking is essential.For further information, contact the Biodiversity Office at Donegal County Council at [email protected] or call 087 3430534.
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Explore 5,000 years of foundations from rituals to farming at Raphoe. Raphoe Community in Action CLG hosts this dual-site walk where you can discover the ancient foundations of what became known as the Druid Circle, or the foundation of Rath Both, Raphoe, that grew around the early monastery and later Eunan’s Cathedral and into the Plantation Town that is Raphoe today. Local historian and archaeologist, Mary Harte, will lead the tours. Two meeting point locations for the talks will be at Beltany Car Park at 12pm, and then outside the Volt House, Raphoe, at 2pm, with both talks expected to last for 45 minutes. For further information, contact Raphoe Community in Action CLG at [email protected] or call 074 9173966.
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Donegal County Archives are offering the visitors the chance to explore Old Letterkenny through surveys, plans, and maps as well as other archives and books. Short presentations will be given by Donegal Studies and Donegal County Archives, which will help explore and uncover Letterkenny's past landscape, old buildings, streets, roads, businesses, and past residents, and the changes and developments that have been made over the course of 150 years. For further information, phone Central Library Letterkenny at 074 91 24950 or email [email protected] to book a place as places are limited.
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Dr Mark McGovern, a Professor Emeritus at the Edge Hill University in England, will provide an informal talk at the Corkscrew Bar Lounge in Doochary from 7.30pm-9pm. His talk, focusing on the The Revenue Police and the Ribbonism Conspiracy, is a follow-on from his original lecture in 2024. Dr McGovern will consider the allegations of the Ribbonism Conspiracy, which dates from September 1842, and examines an inquiry opened in Letterkenny that tells us more broadly about the prevailing political anxiety and social and economic conditions and divisions of pre-famine Donegal. For further information, contact contact Cumann Forbartha - Na Dúchoraidh/ Doochary Tidy Towns or Doochary Development Group at [email protected] or call 083 0279343.